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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
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Subject: Re: Need help: MFM & RLL drives on same box??!!?
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Date: 15 Mar 91 22:11:29 GMT
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>2.  Try to MFM the RLL drive.

>- A good idea?  Will this work at all?  Would it be reliable?  Presumably the
>RLL specs are tighter than the MFM specs so that if 1) I bought an MFM card
>(16 bits) I might actually improve performance on the RLL drive although I'd
>reduce its storage capacity.

Ought to work. Supposedly as easy as connecting it to an MFM 
controller and doing a low-level format. A local clone shop
had lots and lots of recalls on RLL drives when they were new,
(Seagate 238 + Adaptec) and ended up doing just this. 

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