Cylinders versus tracks...

-----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Barry Watzman Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 9:13 AM To: cctech at classiccmp.org Subject: RE: Cylinders versus tracks... A Cylinder is not a single point; it's the collection of multiple tracks that are all under the read/write heads whenever the heads are positioned over that cylinder. It exists only because there are multiple heads. However, while a double sided floppy drive does have cylinders, some systems did not take advantage of them and accessed the floppy drive using all of one side first, then all of the other side, rather than using cylinders (rather than tracks) sequentially. Both types of access are possible, and cylinder based access is clearly "better", but not all systems worked that way. ----- I seem to remember DosPlus on trs80 IIRC, and possible LDos referring to the format on a TRS80 as Cyl X Head Y (1,2) as it formatted.