Patent ID: 7663989

Claim:
A method of setting defect management information used for managing a defective area in a recording area of an information recording medium, the method comprising steps of: obtaining information with respect to a specific area in the recording area in which a defect detection process for detecting the defective area in the recording area need not be performed; setting defect management information including the information with respect to the specific area, wherein the information with respect to the specific area is set by a user; determining whether to perform the defect detection process in the specific area based on the defect management information; and recording information in the specific area after determining a defect detection process need not be performed, wherein the specific area is adjacent to a defect management area in the recording area in which the defect detection process needs to be performed and the information with respect to the specific area includes information with respect to a boundary between the specific area and the defect management area.