Patent ID: 8223604

Claim:
An apparatus for obtaining recording related parameters appropriate to recording characteristics of an optical recording medium, the apparatus comprising: a pickup which emits or receives a light to transfer data with respect to the optical recording medium comprising a lead-in area, an user data area, and a lead-out area, the lead-in area comprising a pre-recorded area and a recordable area; and a controller which controls the pickup to read at least one disk information structure from the pre-recorded area of the optical recording medium, each disk information structure comprising a pair of tables, a first table comprising recording characteristics information comprising a recording speed and a write strategy (WS) indication information, the WS indication information being information on a type of write strategy, and a second table comprising recording related parameters being used in setting the apparatus to a condition corresponding to the recording speed and the WS indication information, determines recording characteristics comprising a recording speed and a write strategy, to be applied to the optical recording medium, selects one disk information structure corresponding to the determined recording characteristics from the at least one disk information structure using the recording characteristic information included in the first table, and controls the pickup to read the recording related parameters of the second table included in the selected disk information structure.