Patent ID: 7310763

Claim:
An information recording method for recording information on a recording medium, the recording medium being able to have error correction code (ECC) blocks arranged on the track, the ECC blocks being obtained by using a plurality of sectors configured to include information, the method comprising: creating a first PO creation block corresponding to one of the ECC blocks, the first PO creation block being configured by rows in the plurality of sectors; creating a second PO creation block corresponding to an other one of the ECC blocks, the second PO creation block being configured by rows in the plurality of sectors; creating a first PO into the first PO creation block, and disposing each row of the first PO to each even sector in the first PO creation block; and creating a second PO into the second PO creation block, and disposing each row of the second PO to each odd sector in the second PO creation block.