[KLUG Members] re: Revolutionary CD Drives & Rotations Per

Jim C members@kalamazoolinux.org
Sun, 20 Jul 2003 10:36:47 -0700


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> I didn't realize that.  Thank you for correcting me.  It reminds me a 
> bit of the really old drives (like 80 MEG capacity) that had several 
> values you could use for sectors per track, depending on whether the 
> partition in question was inside, middle, or outside of the disk.  Do 
> you have any idea how the ZBR knows where to put the data when the 
> tracks are different sizes?  I can't see any way of doing it without 
> some fairly complicated math.

Seems odd.  Can't one use a simple table if one knows the size of the 
disk and the distance from center or edge?