Rich Mellor wrote: > HD - 160 tracks, gives 0.5 (K) x 18 x 160 = 1440K All QL formats have 80 tracks per disc, DD is 9 sectors per track AND SIDE (=18 sectors/track), HD is 18 sectors per track and side (=36 sectors/track) and ED is finally 18 sectors per track and side.
At a typical 300 RPM a DD floppy had a bitrate of about 250kBit/s, HD and ED double and quadruple that. > ED disk drives I think used 1024 bytes per sector -> 1 (K) x 18 x ?? = 3200K No. Marcel _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
