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From: leeh@groucho.cs.psu.edu (Lee Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Questions about Maxtor XT-1085
Summary: RLL controllers
Keywords: Maxtor 1085
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Date: 27 May 90 17:33:25 GMT
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In article <1990May27.115125.11750@dasys1.uucp> schuster@dasys1.UUCP (Michael Schuster) writes:
>              . . . the XT-1140 definitely formats to 1224 tracks, 15 heads
>(just like the XT-2190). Using Adaptec RLL controllers, a few friends of mine
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>have been formatting these to 244 MB for YEARS without a problem.

Is this a unique feature of the Adaptec controller, or will the
Western Digital 1006V SR2 controller do this as well?

Lee Henderson
leeh@groucho.cs.psu.edu