Tandon TM 100 5 1/4" drives

On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Dwight Elvey wrote: If used consistently, that's fine. And it is better than much of common usage. But there are also some people [right or wrong] who use "tracks" to mean "tracks per side", which we call "cylinders". Their usage as such makes it difficult to tell when they say "80 track" whether they are referring to a 360K or 1.2M drive. In a similar way, there are some people who call 360K "9 sector", and some who call it "720 sector". But at least there, there isn't any overlap of the same number for two different usages. Surely EVERYBODY would agree that "40 cylinder, SS or DS" is significantly less ambiguous than "40 track v 80 track" when referring to TM 100-1 amd -2. -- Fred Cisin cisin(a)xenosoft.com XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com 2210 Sixth St. (510) 644-9366 Berkeley, CA 94710-2219