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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 14, 1999
Norimoto Ichikawa, Fujisawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Minemura, Kokubunji, JP;
Toshimitsu Kaku, Sagamihara, JP;
Hisataka Sugiyama, Kodaira, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information recording/reproducing apparatus for recording/reproducing information into and from an optical information recording medium, wherein the information of a plurality of sectors is recorded as one recording unit. A recoding area of the recording medium is constructed with a plurality of zones and each zone is different in a sector number per one round of track. A number of the recording units for conducting a verify control for each of the zones is changed on the basis of a number of sectors per one round of track and a number of sectors for turning back by the one round of track.