Patent ID: 8169865

Claim:
A method of controlling a drive for reproducing data from and/or recording data to an information storage medium, the method comprising: receiving pointing information included in a plurality of areas of disk-related information stored on the information storage medium, the pointing information including write strategy pointing information, information storage layer pointing information, and recording speed pointing information; finding parameter information in the plurality of areas of disk-related information stored on the information storage medium, the parameter information including a plurality of writing strategy parameters, a plurality of information storage layer parameters, and a plurality of recording speed parameters, the parameter information respectively corresponding to the write strategy pointing information, the information storage layer pointing information, and the recording speed pointing information included in the plurality of areas of disk-related information stored on the information storage medium; and controlling the drive according to the found parameter information, wherein each of the plurality of areas of disk-related information are ordered according to recording speed information, information storage layer information, and write strategy information.