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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MFM on RLL?
Message-ID: <642@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 90 21:34:38 GMT
References: <1828@crash.cts.com> <2450@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <2450@rodan.acs.syr.edu> amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) writes:

| 1. seagate has several drives that they specify are RLL only & 'claim' they 
|    be 'damaged' by mfm use.

  True. I don't believe that they will be damaged, but they won't honor
the warantee if you can't make it RLL and it will MFM.

| 2. Try it, if it works & runs read/write diagnostics for a couple days non stop
|    without errors, it probably will be fine for a long time a average use.

  Extremely true. I have founf that the Western Digital hard disk format
and test program (the program, not the stuff in ROM) will really beat a
disk, and if five passes of that surface scan don't find a problem, you
are unlikely to see one.

| 3. No matter what, you should keep up to date backups of your hard disk files.

  Totally and completely true. You should always have a backup of any
hard disk in every case.
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