Re: an idea for higher capacity disks

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From: Scott Hazen Mueller
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1986 22:02

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In article <> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
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>I don't understand why nobody has built magnetic disks that spin at
>a constant speed ... [t]his means that you might get 30,000 bytes per
>track on the inside and 90,000 on the outside -- but who cares?

It's been done before.  I don't think that it is quite done by changing the
clocking rate, but I do know of disk drives that vary the number of sectors
per track in order to fit the most data on the disk.  I believe that the
lowly Commodore 64's disk drive is one such device.

>John Gilmore
                   \scott
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From: smdev@csustan.UUCP (Scott Hazen Mueller)
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Subject: Re: an idea for higher capacity disks
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Date: Thu, 6-Nov-86 17:02:34 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  6 17:02:34 1986
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Summary: variable sectors/track
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