Recording/reproducing head providing evenly distributed contact pressure with magnetic medium

A magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus for recording information on and reproducing information from both sides of a disc-like magnetic recording medium rotatable about a dive shaft, said magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus comprising:

• a first recording head device for recording information on and reproducing information from a first side of said recording medium, said first recording head device including:
• a first magnetic head chip, and
• a first sliding pad;
• a second recording head device for recording information on and reproducing information from a second side of said recording medium, said second recording head device including:
• a second magnetic head chip, and
• a second sliding pad;
• the recording head devices being disposed so as to slidably hold said recording medium therebetween under a predetermined contact pressure, each of said pair of recording head devices including a magnetic head chip and a sliding pad being arranged such that said magnetic head chip is surrounded at a predetermined interval by said sliding pad and the top portion of said magnetic head chip being disposed so as to protrude by a predetermined amount from a sliding surface of said sliding pad which comes into contact with said disc-like recording medium,
• said pair of recording head devices being aligned with each other with said disc-like recording medium being held therebetween so that said magnetic head chips are arranged at different positions at the same interval with respect to said sliding pads in a radial direction of said disc-like recording medium and, when the interval from each of said magnetic head chips to each of said sliding pads is a and the interval between said magnetic head chips is b, the positions of said magnetic head chips with respect to said sliding pads are determined so as to satisfy the following relation,
• b/2.ltoreq.a.ltoreq.b.