Path: utzoo!censor!geac!maccs!cs4g6ag From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Formatting 1.2 Meg disks to 360K question Message-ID: <25BAA562.12407@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: 22 Jan 90 06:17:06 GMT References: <3226@ucrmath.UCR.EDU> <7715@nigel.udel.EDU> <4407@pegasus.ATT.COM> Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Lines: 15 In article jacobs@cs.utah.edu (Steven R. Jacobs) writes: $would it not? I believe the high density disks are 15 sectors/track $while the 360K disks are 9 sectors/track. This, with twice as many $tracks on the 1.2M floppies, accounts for the 1.2M size. This is correct. For 5.25" disks, one can have 8 or 9 sectors per track and one or two sides of 40 tracks under DOS with double-density diskettes; with high-density ones, you get 15 sectors per track, 80 tracks per side, two sides. The various capacities you can get are then 160K, 180K, 320K, 360K, and 1.2M. -- Stephen M. Dunn cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca = "\nI'm only an undergraduate!!!\n"; **************************************************************************** "I want to look at life - In the available light" - Neil Peart