Patent ID: 8020076

Claim:
An information recording apparatus for recording information on an information recording medium in which address information indicating a recording position of record data is recorded in advance, wherein the apparatus comprises: a first data processor for generating the record data by a unit block of a plurality of unit blocks, each of which is a unit of error-correction with respect to input data; a second data processor for generating a first linking information and a second linking information of which a linking area inserted on a boundary portion between one or more sets of adjacent unit blocks is comprised; and a recording device for recording information on the information recording medium so that a recording order becomes the first linking information, the unit block of the record data, and the second linking information, and a data area in which the first linking information, the unit block and the second linking information are recorded is N times as long as an address area in which the address information is recorded, said N being a natural number.