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From: keithe@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Format a MFM w/ RLL card?
Message-ID: <9081@sail.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 91 18:01:30 GMT
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Reply-To: keithe@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <91064.144907NU158739@NDSUVM1.BITNET> NU158739@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Shaun Wetzstein) writes:
>I have a Microlis 1335 (71-Meg MFM) HD and I want to get a RLL/ ERLcard.
>Is this drive capable of being formatted w/ a RLL card?

I'd be tempted to at least give it a try.  Micropolis are pretty
good drives.  I wouldn't RLL a Seagate (or *own* one, for that
matter) on a bet!

>A "mail-order-tech" claimed any MFM drive can be formatted to RLL but it
>might by unstable -- if the drive even works at all.

Disks that don't "take" to RLL formatting can be somewhat difficult
to recognize and/or diagnose.

The symptom is, for lack of a better phrase, Alzheimer's Disease of
the Disk Drive: it remembers things "for a while" but seems to
forget things, losing more and more as time goes by...

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