Patent ID: 7421626
Filing Date: 2008-09-02
Classification: G11B,H03M

Abstract:
1. A data recording method for recording data to a recording medium comprising the steps of: forming a data block organized as data columns and data rows, each data row comprising a plurality of bytes, the data block including identification data and error detection code parity for detect error of the identification data; for each data column in the data block, adding bytes to include an error correcting code parity; rearranging the order of bytes in each data rows according plural rearranging rules to produce a rearranged data block without changing a position of the identification data and the error detection code parity, including rearranging a first row of data according to a first rearranging rule and rearranging at least a second row of data according to a second rearranging rule different from the first rearranging rule; and recording the rearranged data block to a recording medium.