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From: aer@alice.UucP (y)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga disk capacity
Message-ID: <4349@alice.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 20:33:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 19 20:33:36 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 06:16:10 EDT
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When you multiply 80 tracks time 11 sectors/track time 512 bytes/sec, you
get 440K all right (formatted.) The Amiga drive is double-sided, and
NOT flip double-sided. It works, I suspect, like an IBM PC drive,
alternating tracks on one side then the next (two r/w heads.) Thus the
drive is 880K.

The Atari 530ST, on the other hand is something like 360K per side,
and you must physically flip and notch in holes I suspect to get the
amount Atari advertises.
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