Patent ID: 8085634

Claim:
An optical disk drive for recording data on a loaded optical disk in accordance with a recording strategy corresponding to the loaded optical disk, the drive comprising: a recording strategy determination section for determining a recording strategy of the loaded optical disk based on all three of: (i) an optimum recording strategy of a specific optical disk previously and empirically set for the optical disk drive, (ii) a recommended recording strategy previously recorded in a predetermined area on the specific optical disk that is compared with the optimum recording strategy of the specific optical disk to determine a correction parameter, and (iii) a recommended recording strategy previously recorded in a predetermined area on the loaded optical disk that is corrected based on the correction parameter, wherein the specific optical disk is one whose stable recording quality has been previously guaranteed in connection with a plurality of models of optical disk drives; and a recording section for recording data on the loaded optical disk in accordance with the determined recording strategy.