Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

[Fred Cisin]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
> One aside - what's the natural way of defining data on a GCR floppy? Do
> heads/sectors/tracks still make sense as an addressing mode, but it's
> just that the number of sectors per track varies according to the track
> number? Or isn't it that simple?

GCR is also usually done with tracks and sectors.

Having a different number of sectors on different tracks is
irrelevant to whether it is GCR or MFM or ?
Instead, that often becomes a matter of
CAV (constant angular velocity) v CLV (constant linear velocity)
It can be implemented by a variable motor speed, OR
by a variable data transfer rate.

Many systems that do it do it in "zones", rather than
changing every track.

It WILL require another parameter in the spec.