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From: wdao@castor.usc.edu (Walter Dao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: disk size ...
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Date: 22 Jun 89 06:51:06 GMT
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Lately I have been playing with the Disk drive. 
Now I have a question, I have done several testing and what I got was that
one can stuff as much byte on track 80 as on track 0. 
Why ? 
Couldn't one write more data on track 0 (outer most) than on track 80
 (innermost) ? .

also is there another mean to access the disk drive ? 
the first method is to use amiga dos
the second method is to use the .device (and all the DOIO stuff) 
the third way is to stuff the DMA with strategic values and wait .
is there a fourth way ? 
(like a very CPU intensive not relying on the DMA etc ... ?) 


		thanks ...

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