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- From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
- Subject: Re: fdformat loops
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.220815.7671@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
- Organization: You must be kidding!
- References: <1992Sep6.133604.26927@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <715830854snx@grendel.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:08:15 GMT
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- In article <715830854snx@grendel.demon.co.uk> of comp.os.linux,
- jes@grendel.demon.co.uk (Jim Segrave) writes:
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- > 1.2M drives only have tracks 0..76.
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- What? 1.2M drives have tracks 0-79, with sectors 1-15 per track (and two
- heads).
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