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From: unkydave@shumv1.uucp (David Bank)
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Subject: Re: RLL controllers with MFM drives (exaggerated dangers...)
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Date: 24 Oct 89 03:56:38 GMT
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    Reply to Pete Holzmann:

      As I have said a number of times, you CAN get away with it and I
in fact know people who have done so. I also know people who have had 
their drive disappear from the list of ones DOS recognizes.

      When I said "your drive is living on borrowed time" I  ** NEVER **
meant to intimate that RLL would do physical damage to an MFM drive.
That is a ridiculous notion. You may be right in that a better choice
of words would have been "format" instead of "drive".

Unky Dave
unkydave@shumv1.ncsu.edu