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From: dd26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas F. DeJulio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: HELP! Info on MAXTOR XT-1085 needed.
Message-ID: <ca2BpN600UgyQ0Zh8a@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 90 14:12:41 GMT
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bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes:
>         Since the XT-1xxx Maxtor series use
>         plated media, they work reliably as
>         RLL-encoded drives. I've been using
>         a couple of XT-1085's set up as RLL
>         for quite some time with no trouble
>         (except for the general noise which
>         Maxtors produce 8^).
> 
>         Rec. method     RLL
>         Xfer Rate       7.5 Mbits/sec
>         Capacity        105 meg
>         Sec/track        25

Yow!  I've got an XT-1085 hooked up in my Sun2 cluster, and I'm rather
low on disk space.  Does anyone know of an Adaptec-like SCSI<->ST506
card that will let me use RLL?  Alternatively, does anyone know how to
coerce the ordinary Adaptec cards shiped w/ Sun2s to use RRL?
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