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From: cth_co@tekno.chalmers.se (CHRISTER OLSSON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help needed for MFM drive with RLL
Message-ID: <4323@tekno.chalmers.se>
Date: 1 Dec 89 15:51:06 GMT
References: <74452@<1989Nov29> <7700091@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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In article <7700091@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu>, mdonahue@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>   I have heard some rumors that seagate has put hardware in some of its MFM
> drives to prevent them from being formatted RLL (In this way you are forced to 
> purchase a "RLL" drive from seagate to use them RLL.  As I said this was rumored but it may be true and could be causing your problem.  This is what happens      one company gets control of 70 % of the market.    Mike
Older seagates has so bad components in disk hardware. They can't be formatted
in RLL. It's not some type of RLL-protection.

(i.e older ST225 and ST238)