Patent ID: 7363571

Claim:
An information recording method for recording information on a recording medium, the recording medium being able to have error correction code (ECC) blocks arranged on a track, the ECC blocks being obtained by using a plurality of sectors configured to include information, the information recording method comprising: creating a first PO creation block corresponding to one of the ECC blocks, the first PO creation block being configured by rows in the plurality of sectors; creating a second PO creation block corresponding to an other one of the ECC blocks, the second PO creation block being configured by rows in the plurality of sectors; creating a first PO into the first PO creation block and each row of the first PO being interleaved into the first PO creation block; and creating a second PO into the second PO creation block, and each row of the second PO being interleaved into the second PO creation block, wherein each of the leading rows of sectors in the first and second PO creation blocks has an ID including address information.