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  1. Path: fc.hp.com!tomk
  2. From: tomk@fc.hp.com (Tom Kennedy)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: Zip Drive Geometry
  5. Date: 23 Feb 1996 21:45:50 GMT
  6. Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
  7. Distribution: world
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  12.  
  13. David Evans (devans@ccubb.com) wrote:
  14. : Does anyone know the geometry of a ZIP disc?  I seem to have the wrong layout
  15. : and format doesn't work...
  16.  
  17. It's got 196608 sectors.  You can pick any geometry that has that
  18. number of sectors.  (I use 8 sec/track, 2 heads, 12288 tracks.)
  19.  
  20. Tom Kennedy
  21.