Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!apollo!yon
From: yon@apollo.COM (David Yon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Disk Diagnostic software and RLL formatting
Message-ID: <449d48bc.1042a@apollo.COM>
Date: 24 Jul 89 16:49:00 GMT
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
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In article <15617@ut-emx.UUCP>, nghiem@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Alex Nghiem) writes:
>I decided not to go with SCSI because of the lack of diagnostic software
>for SCSI drives on the PC--most everything currently written is for MFM
>ST-506 formats. I think the same deficiency holds true for EDSI and RLL
                                                                     ^^^
>formats. Of course, this lack of diagnostic software probably will change
>in the future.

Incorrect.  Disk Technician+ and Disk Technician Advanced both work with RLL
controllers.  I don't know about ESDI devices.  I also called them to find
out about SCSI, and they said that they didn't even have a SCSI drive in-house.
Pretty sad way to run a software house if you ask me...

David Yon