Russell King wrote:
>Careful how you refer to a track and a cylinder. A cylinder consists of
>two tracks on a two headed drive. The disk controllers are capable of
>automatically changing 'sides' of the disk. Hence, for an 80-cylinder
>disk, the maximum capacity that would be supported by this is not 3840KB
>but 1920KB. (as specified in the A5K TRM incidentally). Since this
>format would require a data rate of 500kbps, it is just within the
>drive specs.
So, if I read this right there should be no problem for any real-world
situation. That's good.
p.
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