David Drummond wrote in a message to CHARLES ANGELICH:

 DD> Al salaam a'alaykum CHARLES

 DD> 22 Dec 03 01:36, CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to DAVID DRUMMOND:

 DD>> I wonder how old RT's drive is.... 

 CA> That may be a factor but I'm not saying a drive that won't do
 CA> an extended format is 'bad' or 'broken', only that certain
 CA> drives did not allow the head to travel beyond the accepted
 CA> 'last track' position while other drives did. :-) 

 DD> Ah - I had an idea that the number of tracks was the same, and they
 DD> crammed more sectors per track....

Actually,  they do both.  There are a number of different extended formats
out there,  some just try for more sectors,  but some add more
sectors/track and also add more tracks as well.  This stuff is all
documented somewhere,  though I can't recall just where at the moment - if
I think of it I'll post it.

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