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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help needed for MFM drive with RLL controller
Keywords: can ST251 be used as RLL?
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Date: 30 Nov 89 01:43:56 GMT
References: <1989Nov29.074452.9386@ug.cs.dal.ca>
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In article <1989Nov29.074452.9386@ug.cs.dal.ca> walker@ug.cs.dal.ca (Paul D. Walker) writes:
|	My question is, can a Segate-251 MFM drive be used as an RLL drive?  For
|those that don't know, the ST-251 is a 28ms access, 40 meg hard drive with 
|820 cylinders and 6 heads (type 40).

I just did it with two different ST251-1s. I'm using a WD1006VSR2 (or
something like that).

Don't know why your DTC is giving you problems. 

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