Patent ID: 7411888

Claim:
An information storage medium comprising: layer 0 which is nearest to a read-out surface and includes a system lead-in area, a connection area located outside the system lead-in area, a data lead-in area located outside the connection area, a data area located outside the data lead-in area, and a middle area located outside the data area, wherein the data lead-in area includes an inner guard track zone (Guard), a drive test zone (TZ) located outside the inner guard track zone, a recording management data (RMD) duplication zone (RDZ) located outside the drive test zone (TZ), a recording management zone (RMZ) in data lead-in area (L-RMZ) located outside the recording management data (RMD) duplication zone (RDZ), an R-physical format information zone (PFI) located outside the recording management zone (RMZ) in data lead-in area (L-RMZ), and a reference code zone (Ref) located outside the R-physical format information zone (PFI), and the middle area includes an outer guard track zone (Guard) and a drive test zone (TZ) located outside the outer guard track zone; and layer 1 which is farthest from the read-out surface and includes a system lead-out area, a connection area located outside the system lead-out area, a data lead-out area located outside the connection area, a data area located outside the data lead-out area, and a middle area located outside the data area, wherein the data lead-out area includes a drive test zone (TZ) and an inner guard track zone (Guard) located outside the drive test zone (TZ), the middle area includes an outer guard track zone (Guard) and a drive test zone (TZ) located outside the outer guard track zone, wherein data recording proceeds from the layer 0 to the layer 1 , the data recording on the layer 0 is performed in a following order, 1) the drive test zone of the layer 0 , 2) the RMD duplication zone, 3) the inner guard track zone of the layer 0 , 4) the recording management zone (RMZ) in data lead-in area (L-RMZ), 5) the data area of the layer 0 , 6) the drive test zone of the layer 0 , 7) the data area of the layer 0 , and 8) the recording management zone (RMZ) in data lead-in area (L-RMZ) with 6) to 8) being repeated by plural times, and the data recording on the layer 1 is performed in a following order, 1) the drive test zone of the layer 1 , 2) the outer guard track zone of the layer 1 , 3) the recording management zone (RMZ) in data lead-in area (L-RMZ), 4) the data area of the layer 1 , 5) the drive test zone of the layer 1 , 6) the data area of the layer 1 , and 7) the recording management zone (RMZ) in data lead-in area (L-RMZ) with 5) to 7) being repeated by plural times.