Patent ID: 6909838

Claim:
A recording method for recording data onto an information recording disk including a volume space, comprising: determining whether a file is an AV file including AV data; when it is determined that the file is the AV file, searching for at least one unrecorded area; skipping at least one sector including a defective sector when the defective sector is detected in the at least one searched unrecorded area, and recording the AV data in at least one sector following the at least one sector which has been skipped; receiving an acceptable skip value which is a maximum value of an acceptable number of skips in the predetermined area and the recorded AV data; when the at least one sector including a defective sector is skipped, determining whether or not the number of skips in a predetermined area in at least one searched unrecorded area exceeds the maximum value of an acceptable number of skips in the predetermined area; based on determination, issuing information indicating that the number of skips exceeds the maximum value; when the number of skips does not exceed the maximum value, based on the issued information, address information on the at least one sector including the defective sector to be skipped is requested; and in response to the request, issuing the address information.