Patent ID: 7979753

Claim:
A data recording method for recording data to a disc comprising steps of: forming a data block organized as data columns and data rows, each data row comprising a plurality of bytes; 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 row according plural rearranging rules to produce a rearranged data block, 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; for each data row in the rearranged data block, adding a SYNC code at the head of said each row; and recording the rearranged data block to a disc, wherein the first rearranging rule and the second rearranging rule are based on the SYNC code position.