A machine readable information storage medium, a reproducing method and apparatus which reproduces data from the storage medium, and a recording method and apparatus for recording data on the storage medium. The information storage medium includes a control area which stores within a data structure information usable by the recording or reproducing apparatus to record or reproduce the data on or from the storage medium. The information stored within the data structure includes a version corresponding to a specification, a revision number of recording speed, and an extended part version field.

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›1.independentA non-transitory machine readable information storage medium for storing data reproducible by a recording or reproducing apparatus,nthe non-transitory…+4

›2.↳ 1A reproducing method for reproducing data from the non-transitory machine readable information storage medium according to claim 1, the method compris…d2

›3.↳ 1A recording method for recording data on the non-transitory machine readable information storage medium according to claim 1, the method comprising:ni…d2

›4.↳ 1A reproducing apparatus for reproducing data from the non-transitory machine readable information storage medium according to claim 1, the apparatus c…d2

›5.↳ 1A recording apparatus for recording data on the non-transitory machine readable information storage medium according to claim 1, the apparatus compris…d2

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IPC · International Patent Classification

Section G — Physics

G11B7/24

USPC · US Patent Classification

369/275.3

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related publication	US 20140177424 A1	26 Jun 2014

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