Patent ID: 7983131

Claim:
An information recording apparatus, comprising: a recorder for recording data on an information recording medium; a verifier for verifying whether or not the data recorded by the recorder can be correctly reproduced; a continuous recorder for providing a gap region of a specified interval between a verification region to be verified by the verifier and a recording region to have data recorded therein by the recorder and successively performing a verify processing and a record processing with rotation waiting in between; an error region discriminator for discriminating an error region in the event of an error in the process of performing the verify processing and the record processing by the continuous recorder; and an error processor for performing an error processing according to the error region discriminated by the error region discriminator, wherein the error processor performs an error processing different from the one performed when an error occurred in either one of the verification region and the recording region if an error is discriminated to have occurred in the gap region by the error region discriminator.