Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!mcdchg!ddsw1!karl
From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Seagate 251 and RLL controllers
Keywords: RLL Hard Drive
Message-ID: <[4105.1]comp.ibmpc;1@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 2 Jul 89 17:00:07 GMT
References: <1450@dukeac.UUCP>
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>Item 4105 (0 responses) by kgreen at dukeac.UUCP on Sun 02 Jul 89 09:35
>[Kendall B Green]    Subject: Seagate 251 and RLL controllers
>
>I have a Seagate 251 Hard Drive that I want to put into a 80386SX
>machine.  I would like to use an RLL controller to increase the
>capacity and decrease the access time.  From discussions here 

If it's a recent model it should work ok (green light .vs. red light).  The
red light models don't work well at all.... don't do it with those.

We use them here RLL all the time, and have yet to have a failure that
wasn't related to the heads crashing (grrrr); that can't be caused by the
recording method!

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