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- Path: sparky!uunet!rde!ksmith!keith
- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: Re: fdformat loops
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 14:49:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.144935.8040@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <1992Sep6.133604.26927@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <715830854snx@grendel.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <715830854snx@grendel.demon.co.uk> jes@grendel.demon.co.uk (Jim Segrave) writes:
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- >1.2M drives only have tracks 0..76.
- >
- >--
- >Jim Segrave (Segrave Software Services) jes@grendel.demon.co.uk
- >
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- Since when? In my spec 1.2M =
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- 96 Tracks per inch
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- 80 Physical cylinders(tracks on a given disk side)
- 2 Heads
- 15 Sectors per track
- 512 Bytes per sector
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- So 80 * 2 * 15 * 512 = 1228800 bytes per disk.
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