Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!bradley.grigor
From: bradley.grigor@canremote.uucp (BRADLEY GRIGOR)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MFM as an RLL drive?
Message-ID: <90011904271890@masnet.uucp>
Date: 31 Dec 89 11:11:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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cz>From: clyde@hitech.ht.oz (Clyde Smith-Stubbs)
cz>Orga: HI-TECH Software, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
writes:

cz>One thing that would affect an old drive being used with a new
cz>controller is the difference in step rate. Older drives (e.g. the old
cz>Shugart 10MB drives) could not accomodate buffered seek so maybe
cz>putting one of these on a new controller that is toggling the step
cz>line at a high rate could cause damage to the drive. Virtually all
cz>ST506 (really ST412) drives made in the last few years should not be
cz>affected by this.

My Shugart 10 MB drive has been running as RLL for the past 6 months
with no apparent damage -- indeed, I'm happy I replaced the original
controller -- 80 bucks gave the old machine a "new lease on life"!

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