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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: HELP! Info on MAXTOR XT-1085 needed.
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Date: 23 Mar 90 06:11:55 GMT
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In <ca2BpN600UgyQ0Zh8a@andrew.cmu.edu>, dd26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas F. DeJulio) writes:
>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?

The Adaptec 4070 is a SCSI->ST506 RLL controller. The Adaptec 4000 controller
shipped with the Sun 2 cannot be made to run RLL. 4070s are available fairly
cheaply.

-larry

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