A double-sided floppy disk is available that is 1200 KB in size.

univerkov | April 13, 2021 | education

A double-sided floppy disk is available that is 1200 KB in size. How many tracks are on one side of a floppy disk if each track contains 15 sectors of 4096 bits each?

A double-sided floppy disk has a total size of 1200 KB, therefore one side has a size of 1200: 2 = 600 KB.

Let’s calculate the size of one track: 4096 bits x 15 sectors = 61440 bits = 7680 bytes (1 byte = 8 bits) = 7.5 KB (1 KB = 1024 bytes).

Dividing the total size of one side of the floppy disk by the size of one track, we get the number of tracks:

600: 7.5 = 80 tracks.

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