The present invention relates to a high-density disk that is structured to
prevent a collision of an optical pickup's objective lens with the
high-density disk if the disk is placed upside down in a disk device that
is able to record and reproduce signals to/from the high-density disk. A
high-density disk recording medium according to the present invention is
structured such that, wherein a recording layer having high-density pit
patterns is offset from a center plane of disk thickness, a center hole
of the disk recording medium is asymmetric in shape with respect to the
center plane where, for example, both entrances of the center hole have
mutually different diameters.