Floppy Disks
p. 353 Fig. 7-8
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What are tracks and
sectors?
Track
is narrow recording band
that forms full
circle on disk
is narrow recording band
that forms full
circle on disk
Sector
stores up to
512 bytes
of data
512 bytes
of data
Formatting prepares disk for use
and marks bad sectors as unusable
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