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From: amc4919@cec1.wustl.edu (Adam Michael Costello)
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Subject: Re: Pin-out for external drive needed !!!
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Date: 7 May 90 21:01:43 GMT
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In article <18767@estelle.udel.EDU> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>Just to clear things up here...
>you have sectors, blocks, heads, tracks, and cylinders.
>cyl = heads times tracks.

I thought the number of tracks was the product of the number of heads and the
number of cylinders.  Could that be what you meant, or am I screwed up?

>Amiga floppies are 80 cyls, not 80 tracks.
>Only old single-sided floppies are 40 tracks.