On 1999-03-26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Oops. That was a typo. Thanks for pointing that out. Yes
>ofcourse he needs an MFM card for an MFM drive.
>I did also mention in that post that he could try
>formatting it as RLL, not because it is really workable,
>but because it is instructive. When I first started
>playing with those drives, I thought I was really smart
>getting an extra 10Megs out of one of those. Well .... it
>_is_ obviously pushing it way too far because errors start
>to show up ..... really badly. <g> But it sortof works.
>Hehe. Anyway, that's how _I_ learn things (spending hours
>proving myself wrong).
Is there a way to easily tell the difference between an RLL and MFM
controller? I always thought they were compatible...sort like SCSI 1 and
SCSI 2.
>Oh, oh... I just remembered. Some of them had an "R"
>appended to the product number and are designed and
>certified for use with RLL, but that's another story.
I'll have to look at the drives I have.
Net-Tamer V 1.11.2X - Test Drive
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