CompuServe Thread

#2090A question

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#14816From: Black Belt SystemsOct 5, 1988 11:25 PM
RLL does have 1.5x the density of MFM encoding, however – therefor, when you have an RLL drive, you are going to have 1.5 x the miber of sectors given the same rotational speed – Right?
#14878From: Richard Rae/SYSOPOct 6, 1988 9:36 AM
1) If one chose to keep the same sector size, there would be 50% more sectors per track. 2) If one chose to increase the size of the sectors, then the number of sectors per track would not necessarily increase by 50%. The above should be considered to be in the range of conjecture. I don't really know how disks are structured at that level. Do they put more sectors on, increase the size of the sectors, or what? Certainly the extra data has to go SOMEWHERE! But where? <Shrug> (BTW, I thought it was interesting that my reference said storage went up by *60%*, not 50%.)