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From: athos@otto.bf.rmit.oz (David Burren [Athos])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: ST4053 drive - "RLL-able"?
Summary: Does anyone know if it will die in the proverbial?
Message-ID: <568@otto.bf.rmit.oz>
Date: 9 Nov 89 00:21:23 GMT
Organization: Survey Computing Consultants, Vic, Australia
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I've recently seen comments (think t'was here :-) about the 80 Mb ST-4096
playing up for some people when they tried to format it as an RLL drive.

I have a 42 Mb ST4053 - sortof the 4096's little brother - as the main drive
in my Xenix-286 box. Can anyone offer me a simple answer as to experience/other
on using the 4053 with RLL?

My current MFM controller is giving me a 1:2 interleave (when I tried 1:1 I got
a throughput of around 27 kbytes/sec or thereabouts) and I'm considering
changing to a 1:1, RLL controller.
The CPU's a 12 MHz '286 running on a zero-wait-state motherboard, so I'm
reasonably sure it's not going to get left too far behind in the rush :-) and
my second drive is a Fuji 30 Mb RLL drive that's currently setup as MFM (20 Mb)

Many thanks for any responses!
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David Burren (Athos),			       ACSnet: athos@otto.rmit.oz.au
Survey Computing Consultants, Hawthorn, Vic.