For the purpose of providing technique by which even when large skew of a disk or a head occurs due to a thermal shock, an outside shock, or the like, a servo signal area is not extended, and a performance loss caused by head change is not produced, a servo detection control system according to the present invention comprises: a learning means by head change including a servo sector interval measuring unit for measuring an interval of servo signal areas, which may occur at the time of head change among a plurality of heads; a time difference calculating unit for calculating head-change time difference from a value measured by the servo sector interval measuring unit; and a time difference storage unit for storing a result of calculation made by the time difference calculating unit; and a compensation and control means for compensating start timing of servo detection after head change using a stored value of the time difference storage unit. In addition, the amount of head skew in a disk radius direction is measured using a writing signal in a servo sector after head change; and positioning of feed-forward of a head is controlled using the amount of head skew.

 
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