An information recording/reproducing apparatus for recording/reproducing information into and from an optical information recording medium, wherein the information of a plurality of sectors is recorded as one recording unit. A recoding area of the recording medium is constructed with a plurality of zones and each zone is different in a sector number per one round of track. A number of the recording units for conducting a verify control for each of the zones is changed on the basis of a number of sectors per one round of track and a number of sectors for turning back by the one round of track.