Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: RLL + Segate ST251-1 Message-ID: <2018@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 4 Oct 90 02:00:24 GMT References: <1990Sep28.030510.5081@karnak.uucp> Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 18 In article jzl@micasa.UUCP (Jack Z. Lupic) writes: | I am also using an ST251-1 but as an MFM drive.What I have heard is that | these drives were "better" made up to a certain run/serial number but that | later runs were found to be unreliable for RLL.Any comments? I've been using a few here and there for months, and I think they're getting better. They seem dead solid with RLL, although they're not certified for it. You can get a drive which won't work, but most do. 9:59pm up 36 days, 34 mins, 4 users, load average: 1.12, 1.16, 1.00 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ as I said, pretty reliable. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me