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From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Low Density Disks in High Densi
Message-ID: <1645@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 3 Sep 89 21:23:47 GMT
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Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Penn State University
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In article <5190040@hplsla.HP.COM> janh@hplsla.HP.COM (Jan Hofland) writes:
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|With all due respect, the rotational speed of the drive doesn't
|change.  The write frequency, on the other hand, is doubled so the
|the number of sectors per track doubles.

With all due respect, the rotational speed of the drive, for 5 1/4"
1.2mb disks, does change.  So does the write frequency.  The rotational
speed for a high desnsity 5.25" disk is 360rpm, as opposed to 300rpm for
a 360k disk.

  Bill
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