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- From: deraadt@newt.cuc.ab.ca (Theo de Raadt)
- Subject: Re: MiniDisc is here!
- In-Reply-To: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil's message of 27 Dec 92 05: 36:48 GMT
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- <92Dec26.142249est.47894@neat.cs.toronto.edu> <28982@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 06:27:21 GMT
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- In article <28982@oasys.dt.navy.mil> curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) writes:
- The compression in MD is 2048:424 which is closer to 5:1.
- ...
- The MD is also designed so the track/sector type information can be
- read off the disk faster than the CD format - which also improves
- seeks times. But still, I don't expect it to be as fast as a
- floppy - but I sure would like it if it were.
- ...
- BTW, at the higher read rate, it only takes about 15 minutes to read
- the entire disk (not 74).
-
- What is the actual geometry and spacing of the disk? Is it 72M or 200M
- in size or what?
- <tdr.
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