Information recording apparatus, information recording method and integrated circuit

An information recording method, comprising:

• a recording step of recording data on an information recording medium;
• a verifying step of verifying whether or not the data recorded in the recording step can be correctly reproduced;
• a continuous recording step of providing a gap region of a specified interval between a verification region to be verified in the verifying step and a recording region to have data recorded therein in the recording step and successively performing a verify processing and a record processing with rotation waiting in between;
• an error region discriminating step of discriminating an error region in the event of an error in the process of performing the verify processing and the record processing in the continuous recording step;
• and
• an error processing step of performing an error processing according to the error region discriminated in the error region discriminating step,
• wherein, in the error processing step, an error processing different from the one performed when an error occurred in either one of the verification region and the recording region is performed if an error is discriminated to have occurred in the gap region in the error region discriminating step.

An integrated circuit, comprising:

• an error region discriminating circuit for discriminating an error region in the event of an error in the process of providing a gap region of a specified interval between a verification region to be verified as to whether or not recorded data can be correctly reproduced and a recording region to have data recorded therein and successively performing a verify processing and a record processing with rotation waiting in between;
• and
• an error processing circuit for performing an error processing according to the error region discriminated by the error region discriminating circuit,
• wherein the error processing circuit performs an error processing different from the one performed when an error occurred in either one of the verification region and the recording region if an error is discriminated to have occurred in the gap region by the error region discriminating circuit.