Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen
From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MFM on RLL?
Message-ID: <704@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 90 23:24:35 GMT
References: <2881@uwm.edu> <148@cms2.UUCP> <645@sixhub.UUCP> <3129@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <3129@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> kaleb@mars.UUCP (Kaleb Keithley) writes:

| Western Digital's WD1006 has a manual setup that includes 31 sectors per track.
| When I asked about this on the net a couple of months ago, no one knew
| anything about it.  Who makes drives that will do 31 sectors per track?

  I *believe* this is an artifact from using the same ROM program in
their MFM, RLL, and ESDI controllers. Don't take that as gospel, but I
think that's the story.
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