Patent ID: 8009532

Claim:
A recording apparatus for recording a data pattern onto a recording medium at an arbitrary recording speed, the recording apparatus comprising: a first strategy calculating device for calculating a first optimum strategy which allows jitter of the data pattern recorded at a first recording speed to satisfy a desired condition, on the basis of a result of reading the data pattern recorded by a predetermined first standard strategy used to record the data pattern at the first recording speed; a second strategy calculating device for calculating a second standard strategy used to record the data pattern at a second recording speed by performing a clock cycle conversion process according to a difference between the first recording speed and the second recording speed, which is different from the first recording speed, on the first standard strategy; a second power calculating device for calculating a second optimum power used to record the data pattern at the second recording speed, on the basis of a result of reading the data pattern recorded at the second recording speed; a third strategy calculating device for calculating a second optimum strategy which allows jitter of the data pattern recorded at the second recording speed to satisfy a desired condition, by adjusting a strategy of the second standard strategy for recording at least one portion of the data pattern, on the basis of a result of reading the data pattern recorded at the second recording speed with the second optimum power and in the second standard strategy; and a fourth strategy calculating device for calculating a third optimum strategy used to record the data pattern at a third recording speed which is different from the first recording speed and the second recording speed, on the basis of each of a difference between the first standard strategy and the first optimum strategy and a difference between the second standard strategy and the second optimum strategy.