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From: sxdal@acad3.alaska.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ST251 as an RLL drive???
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.101150.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 14:11:50 GMT
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A while back there was a discussion about using Seagate ST251 hard drives
with RLL controllers to increase capacity by 50%. can someone tell me
exactly what I need so that I can do this? how to go about doing it?
I have a 251-1 and a WD1003-rah controller. the controller has jumpers to
allow the computer to translate the sectors into 17 for the computer
in case the bios won't handle 26. do I want it translated or not? also
I tried using ontrack dm to format the disks and it will format the disk
if I tell it that the disk is a ST277R but I can't write a boot track or
my FAT's. I tried just letting the dm use the parameters it wanted but
then it only formatted the disk sectors to 17.
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Don Levinson == sxdal@acad3.alaska.edu == sxdal@alaska