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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pin-out for external drive needed !!!
Message-ID: <18858@estelle.udel.EDU>
Date: 8 May 90 20:02:12 GMT
References: <1990May4.031413.5552@agate.berkeley.edu> <5160097@hplsla.HP.COM> <18767@estelle.udel.EDU> <1990May7.210143.851@cec1.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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In article <1990May7.210143.851@cec1.wustl.edu> amc4919@cec2.UUCP (Adam Michael Costello) writes:
>In article <18767@estelle.udel.EDU> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>>cyl = heads times tracks.
>>Amiga floppies are 80 cyls, not 80 tracks.
>>Only old single-sided floppies are 40 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?

Ok, I screwed up.  What I meant to say is that the number of sectors on a
cylinder equals the number of sectors on a track times the number of heads.
Sorry, but that's just how I think about these things.  Hope I didn't
confuse anybody any worse.    -- Darren