30 May
2000
30 May
'00
2:54 a.m.
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Let's start sort of from scratch here.
So far we have the following (high level) criterion for a disk archive
standard:
1. Host computer type (2 bytes allowing up to 65536 models to be
specified)
2. Track format (host computer specific)
3. Sector format (single-density, double-density, etc)
4. Sector data format - this will specify what format the archived sector
is in (raw data? logical bytes?)
5. Bytes per sector
6. Bits per byte
What else?
Hmmm...
Hard sector vs. SOft sector (for ctrlr emulations)
Interleaving - yes/no/offset value
Sectors per track
# of Tracks
Surfaces (heads) per cylinder
...?
-jim
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