Re: ProDOS, 5.25" drives, and 35/40 tracks

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 23:06:26 -0800, "Benjamin Summers"
<summersb@ucs.orst.edu> wrote:

|>If Apple II 5.25" drives have the ability to read and write 40 tracks
|>instead of the usual 35 (several software patches are available), can anyone
|>tell me why in the world Apple didn't write ProDOS to take advantage of
|>this??  I mean, as if the single-sided nature of the drives wasn't enough,
|>Apple seems to have placed artificial limits on storage space.

i may be wrong, but it's been my understanding that those five extra
sectors per track weren't as stable.

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