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From: akcs.larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: help on choosing a hard disk
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Date: 19 Oct 89 12:28:50 GMT
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>what he called micropro mother-board with AMI bios; and a miniscribe 3650
>strained up to 65 mb (the ad I've seen on this HD is 42 mb/61 ms. and only
>for MFM controller) by using a RLL controller. He claims that the use of
>the HD for the RLL is absolutely safe. The whole system comes with 20 MHz cpu,

I would suggest installing the fastest hard disk that you can afford.  1:1
MFM is fast - but not as fast as the 1:1 RLL or some of the other interfaces.
On a fast machine such as this - it will be a waste of power to limit the
disk IO.

Just a comment - Larry