Patent ID: 7660215

Claim:
A method of writing data to a rewritable disc, the method comprising: reading a disc code and information regarding a lead-in area and a lead-out area from the disc; extracting information regarding a write speed of the disc from the read disc code, and determining a write speed of the disc using the extracted information regarding the write speed of the disc; selecting a table from a plurality of tables for write strategies based on the determined write speed of the disc; and writing data to the disc, the writing being at the determined write speed and according to a first write strategy when a write strategy for a lead-in area and a lead-out area is determined to be present in the selected table, according to a second write strategy when a write strategy for the lead-in area is determined to be present in the selected table, and according to a default write strategy when the write strategy for the lead-in area is determined not to be present in the selected table.