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From: gjh@galen.acc.virginia.edu (Galen Hekhuis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: RLL drives formatted MFM?
Keywords: I really hate to mention this
Message-ID: <760@galen.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: 5 Nov 89 00:00:53 GMT
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Reply-To: gjh@galen.acc.Virginia.EDU (Galen Hekhuis)
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In article <2551C87A.53A7@drivax.UUCP> liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato) writes:
}liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato) writes:
}
}>gjh@galen.acc.virginia.edu (Galen Hekhuis) writes:
}
}>>Has anyone successfully run an RLL (specifically a Seagate 238) with an
}>>MFM format?  Is this the something I should have learned in kindergarten?
}
}>Uh oh, now you're really in for it!. :-) :-)
}
}>I'm sure someone will be happy to *EMAIL* all the relevant information to
}>you since you must be a new account and probably missed the EXTENSIVE coverage
}>of this topic this month.
}
}Uh oh, now *I'm* really in for it!  How I didn't recognize Galen's name can
}only be stocked up to the odd hour.  Actually, he was asking about something
}quite different which a CAREFUL reading would have revealed.  There was no
}personal slight intended but he is certainly due a public apology from me for
}the implications of my post.  Done!
}
}--
}Jimmy Liberato   ...!amdahl!drivax!liberato                              

Hey, thanks -- and no offense taken.  Also thanks for the note saying
you had in fact actually done just this, and it neither caused the 
hurricane in SC or the earthquake in CA, although manufacturers 
routinely predict such results (although the examples are a bit on
the extreme side).  Thanks for the folks that responded that they 
had tried such a thing, and that there is seemingly no physical 
prohibition -- purchasing from large instutitions being what it is
I guess I'll get to try this very exeriment later in the week, now
with a bit less hesitation.  As for the suprising amount of people 
who sent me reams of material (and other things) concerning MFM
drives on RLL controllers, that wasn't exactly what I was after and
words cannot adequately express my thoughts, which is just as well
I guess, because I have been told (I think by my mommy) that if you
can't say anything nice about people, don't say anything at all.


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Galen Hekhuis  UVa Health Sciences Center  Box 449, Jordan Hall
Charlottesville, VA 22908  (804)982-1646   gjh@virginia.edu
            A stitch in time is a penny earned.