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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  2. Path: netcom.com!tdenbo
  3. From: tdenbo@netcom.com (Tom Denbo)
  4. Subject: Re: Zip Drive Geometry
  5. Message-ID: <tdenboDnr72L.A02@netcom.com>
  6. Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
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  8. References: <19960223.7CF2F28.90E7@ccubb.com> <4glcie$b66@fcnews.fc.hp.com>
  9. Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 17:25:33 GMT
  10. Sender: tdenbo@netcom15.netcom.com
  11.  
  12. Tom Kennedy (tomk@fc.hp.com) wrote:
  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. Doesn't 2 heads effectively create 2 partitions?  What if we prefer 1
  21. partition?
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  24. | Tom Denbo          tdenbo@netcom.com  |       ///
  25. | Pasadena, CA  USA  (Tom` on IRC)      |   \\\///
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