Patent ID: 8180197

Claim:
A disk-like recording medium recording/reproducing method for performing a data recording operation and a data reproducing operation to the disk-like recording medium alternately, comprising the steps of: performing the recording operation at a constant linear velocity; identifying whether a recording area at an ending point of an n-th recording operation on the disk-like recording medium, where n is a natural number, is continuous to a recording area at a starting point of an (n+1) the recording operation; and in response to an identifying result indicative of discontinuation of the recording area in the identifying step, changing the rotational speed at the starting point of the (n+1)th recording operation, during a reproducing operation between the n-th recording operation and the (n+1)th recording operation; and in response to an identifying result indicative of continuation of the recording area in the identifying step, holding the rotational speed of the disk-like recording medium at the ending point of the n-th recording operation, during a reproducing operation between the n-th recording operation and the (n+1)th recording operation.