Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!caip!topaz!think!harvard!seismo!columbia!garfield.columbia.edu!kearns From: kearns@garfield.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: 800k drive formats (A proposal) Message-ID: <2648@columbia.UUCP> Date: Fri, 20-Jun-86 18:17:45 EDT Article-I.D.: columbia.2648 Posted: Fri Jun 20 18:17:45 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Jun-86 03:57:53 EDT References: <262@sivax.UUCP> Sender: nobody@columbia.UUCP Reply-To: kearns@garfield.UUCP (Steve Kearns) Distribution: net Organization: Columbia University CS Department Lines: 7 compatability between 400k and 800k disks would be great, but your system will not do the trick because..... Files are not contiguous on the disk; one file might start in sector 8 and jump to sector 555. So Even if you have half the sectors you are not guaranteed of getting half the files. -steve