Method of recording data in multilayered recordable optical recording medium, recording and reproducing apparatus for recording the data in the recording medium and the recording medium

A method of recording data in a multilayered recordable optical recording medium having N (N is an integer of 2 or more) recording layers each of which layers includes a test recording area where test recording is executed for obtaining an optimum recording condition for actual recording, and which method includes a data recording step in which data are sequentially recorded in the recording layers from a first recording layer at a farthest position to an Nth recording layer at a nearest position viewed from a recording and reproducing laser beam inputting direction in order, comprising:

• a test recording executing step which sequentially executes test recording in recordable recording layers having unrecorded parts from a pth recording layer (1≦p≦N) at a farthest position in the recordable recording layers to an arbitrary qth recording layer (p≦q≦N) in the recordable recording layers at the farthest position to the nearest position viewed from the recording and reproducing laser beam inputting direction;
• a test recording range using step which sequentially uses a plurality of test recording ranges formed by dividing the test recording area in a radius direction from one end to the other end of the recording medium in each of the recording layers (hereinafter this direction is referred to as a test recording direction);
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• a shifting step which shifts the test recording range of an (m+1)th recording layer by a predetermined shifting distance relative to the test recording range of an mth recording layer in a direction inverse to the test recording direction.