4 May
2009
4 May
'09
2:11 p.m.
On Mon, 4 May 2009, js at cimmeri.com wrote:
Steven Hirsch wrote:
> On Sun, 3 May 2009, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>> The 820-II 8" samples in my library show 77*1*26*256 and 77*2*26*256
>> formats.
> That's fairly conservative, but works out to
almost a 1MB for the DSDD
> diskettes. Most systems I'm familiar with formatted at 32 x 256 in DD
> mode.
What?! Using what controller chip? How that's
even possible while
maintaining the same 360rpm?
Too early in the day... Just checked the sources for the formatter, and
it's 30 256-byte sectors per track not 32.
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