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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Reading Mac floppies on DOS
Keywords: DOS, format, floppies
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Date: 17 Dec 90 15:56:19 GMT
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In article <9830@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Donald Burr) writes:
>
>Close.  The Mac high density floppies are 1.40 MB. Interesting how they
>couldn't fit an extra .04 MB on the newer format.  I wonder how stuff
>like tracks per inch, tracks on disk, sectors per track, track/data density,
>etc. compares between the Mac 1.40 SuperDrives and the (shudder) IBM 1.44
>drives.  Anyone got any answers?

This doesn't make sense-- the SuperDrive format and the MS-DOS format are
identical:

                 Capacity    TSS      SD       # of     # of     # of
    Format       in blocks   valid    or DD    Sides    Sectors  Tracks
   1440K MFM(2,3)  2880      yes      DD        2       18       80
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