Re: hard disk interleave

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From: Timothy Lange
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1986 20:36

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The 10 Mbyte drives in the IBM PC/XT when shipped by IBM are formatted
with 512 byte sectors at an interleave factor of 6 (17 sectors per
track, 4 heads per cylinder).

The above is from page 8-8 of the DOS Technical Manual.
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Subject: Re: hard disk interleave
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Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 15:36:08 EST
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