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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Perstor HD controllers
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Date: 5 Dec 89 11:28:32 GMT
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In article <897@eecea.eece.ksu.edu>, khc@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Ken Carpenter) wrote:
 >
 >I formatted a Miniscribe 3085 using the Perstor HD controller last August.
[then reformatted with a WD1006V-SR2 and had lots of problems]
 >The conclusion:  MS3085 won't support RLL.
 >The question: how is it able to support ARLL?

First, ARLL has different timings than RLL, which probably affected things.
Second, the Perstor uses mondo error correction, but still has significantly
higher rated hard-error rates than MFM drives.
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