A magnetic recording medium has a substrate, and a servo signal recording magnetic
layer whose magnetization is oriented in a direction perpendicular to a surface
thereof, a non-magnetic layer and a data recording magnetic layer, which are stacked
on the substrate in the order mentioned. The servo signal recording magnetic layer
has a coercivity higher than that of the data recording magnetic layer. The servo
signal recording magnetic layer has servo tracks formed with a track pitch Tps,
the servo tracks adjacent to each other in a track width direction being magnetized
to opposite directions perpendicular to the film surface.