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Subject: Re: RLL controler with MFM drive
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Date: 3 Dec 89 23:27:54 GMT
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In article <11330004@acf5.NYU.EDU>, mitsolid@acf5.NYU.EDU (Thanasis Mitsolides)
says:
>
>Hi,
>        A friend of mine has a 72mb MFM drive (ATASI 3085) and
>he would like to try and format it using an RLL controler.
>
>        If he succeeds great.
>        If he fails, what?
>        Is there any chance he might damage the drive during the testing?
>        Would the drive still work with an MFM controler for sure?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Thanasis
>
>
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It shouldn't screw up the drive at all.  It would either give alot of
read errors or should work fine.  That has been the experience of both a
friend and I who have done it to many different drives.  Western Digital
RLL card seem to work better with MFM drives than Adaptec's.

                                                            Brent H. Besler