CompuServe Messages

Steve, How many sectors per track and what's the speed of the platter? When I say 35 sectors per track at 512 bytes per sector…it could have just as easily been 17 sectors per track at 1024 bytes per sector or 9 sectors per track at 2048 bytes per sector. The point being that there are only X number of bytes available on the track and the track can only pass under the head at a certain speed based on the rotation of the platter. There's just no way you can read data faster than it passes under the head. Don