sectors per track
If you know the media transfer rate, how do you calculate the maximum number of sectors per track from that?
Solution 1:
Quick answer: you can't. While drive geometry plays a part in the drive's performance it is not the only factor by far.
For one the on board cache of the drive (32MB is increasingly common) will disassociate the rate of the data being read from the disk from the data sent over the bus.