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From: mk59200@cc.tut.fi (Kolkka Markku)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: QUANTUM PRO105s - Need help with MontList
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.115655.8225@cc.tut.fi>
Date: 27 Jun 91 11:56:55 GMT
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References: <1991Jun26.064822.3223@ericsson.se> <22704@cbmvax.commodore.com> <rkushner.3077@sycom.UUCP>
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In article <rkushner.3077@sycom.UUCP> rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes:
>>  Heads .......... 1
>>  Cylinders ...... 2097
>>  Sectors/Track .. 98
>
>These stats confuse me. My A3000 says my P105S has 1 head, 2929 cylinders, and
>70 blocks/track, and when I had the GVP Series II it came up with 6 heads,
>1004 Cylinders, and 34 sectors per track....Why so many variations?

The only significant number is the total number of available blocks
that is reported by the drive.  You can factorize it between heads,
cyliders and sectors any way you want as long as the total is equal
or smaller to the available disk space.

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	Markku Kolkka
	mk59200@cc.tut.fi