22 May
2013
22 May
'13
3:02 p.m.
> Minor nit: That should be clarified/limited as
8" DD
> (Machines that handle only 8" SSSD would not be capable)
On Wed, 22 May 2013, Tony Duell wrote:
Wouldn't it? I would have thought it would, but
only using FM (single
density) recording on the 3.5" drive. In other words you wouldn't get
1440K [1] on the disk, but it would work.
Exactly!
If one were attempting to implement 1.4M (it multiplies out to
1474560, or 1.40625M), as I inferred from the original discussion,
[1] I flatly refuse to call 1024*1000 a
mega-anything...
then it wouldn't be suitable. But SSSD 3.5" with 128
bytes per sector sounds like fun.
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