30 Dec
2010
30 Dec
'10
10:46 a.m.
I always considered track and cylinder to mean the
same
for single sided.
For doule sided=2C Thre would be two tracks per cylinder.
And I would agree with you...
However, I'll bet that if you ask a reasnablu 'techy' PC person 'how many
tracks are there on a 1.44M vfloppy disk' you will not get the answer
'160' (whcih is the technically correct answer).. Most will answer '80'.
I would probably say 'There are 80 cylinders, each of 2 tracks',
particularly if I suspected it was a trick question :-)
-tony