31 Dec
2010
31 Dec
'10
11:45 a.m.
However=2C
I'll bet that if you ask a reasnablu 'techy' PC person 'how ma=
ny=20
tracks are there on a 1.44M vfloppy disk' you
will not get the answer=20
'160' (whcih is the technically correct answer).. Most will answer '80'.=
=20
I would probably say 'There are 80
cylinders=2C each of 2 tracks'=2C=20
particularly if I suspected it was a trick question :-)
=20
-tony
Hi
The disk steps to 80 tracks but has 160 tracks on the media if double sided..
I think the confusion is that when stepping to a track=2C
it doesn't make any difference to the stepper which
side you start or end on. I'd guess that that is how
Correct, and that's really what a 'cylinder' means.
the concept of cylinders got mixed up. The media
and the action of the drive are two different things.
-tony