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  1. Path: newsfeed.internetmci.com!xmission!news
  2. From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: Zip Drive Geometry
  5. Date: 05 Mar 96 16:34:58 +0500
  6. Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900)
  7. Message-ID: <1181.6638T994T2905@xmission.com>
  8. References: <19960223.7CF2F28.90E7@ccubb.com> <4glcie$b66@fcnews.fc.hp.com> <tdenboDnr72L.A02@netcom.com>
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  13. On or about 04-Mar-96 22:25:33 Tom Denbo typed the following words about "Re:
  14. Zip Drive Geometry".  My reply is thus...
  15.  
  16.  Hi Tom,
  17.  
  18.  
  19.  TD> Tom Kennedy (tomk@fc.hp.com) wrote:
  20.  TD>: David Evans (devans@ccubb.com) wrote:
  21.  TD>: : Does anyone know the geometry of a ZIP disc?  I seem to have the wron
  22.  TD>: : and format doesn't work...
  23.  
  24.  TD>: It's got 196608 sectors.  You can pick any geometry that has that
  25.  TD>: number of sectors.  (I use 8 sec/track, 2 heads, 12288 tracks.)
  26.  
  27.  TD> Doesn't 2 heads effectively create 2 partitions?  What if we prefer 1
  28.  TD> partition?
  29.  
  30. No
  31.  
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  33.       //        -= John =-    jsburger@xmission.com    BIX: jburger
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  36.  Amiga  2000                                                             H
  37.  A2630 A2632            John S. Burger       Hooper, UT                  O
  38. 2+14megs  RAM                                                            R
  39.   850meg HD             This message was composed on...                2.23▀
  40.  Iomega  ZIP                  5-Mar-96 16:13:36
  41. Biggest security gap - an open mouth.
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