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- From: henke@hv.se (Henrik Wetterstrom)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zip Drive Geometry
- Date: 26 Feb 1996 11:24:58 GMT
- Organization: VΣxj÷ university
- Distribution: world
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- References: <4glcie$b66@fcnews.fc.hp.com>
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- In article <4glcie$b66@fcnews.fc.hp.com>, tomk@fc.hp.com (Tom Kennedy) writes:
- >David Evans (devans@ccubb.com) wrote:
- >: Does anyone know the geometry of a ZIP disc? I seem to have the wrong layout
- >: and format doesn't work...
- >
- >It's got 196608 sectors. You can pick any geometry that has that
- >number of sectors. (I use 8 sec/track, 2 heads, 12288 tracks.)
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- Why so few secors and so many tracks? Isn't that a major performance
- loss? The number of seeks for a track increases a lot, and that time
- is a lot higher than the time required to revolve the disk one
- rotation. Just my humble opinion...
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- /Henrik
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