Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!pyrnj!pyrite!bill From: bill@pyrite.nj.pyramid.com (Bill Pechter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Does ESIX still not support RLL? Message-ID: <513@pyrite.nj.pyramid.com> Date: 23 Apr 91 13:32:02 GMT References: <1991Apr21.155642.1586@shambala.uucp> <1991Apr22.210543.27730@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> <3080@cirrusl.UUCP> Reply-To: bill@pyrite.UUCP (Bill Pechter) Lines: 18 In article <3080@cirrusl.UUCP> Rahul Dhesi writes: > >How can ESIX even know whether the controller uses RLL? How can >anybody find this out without ripping the disk apart and analyzing the >bit-patterns stored on the platter? If there's more than the standard number of MFM sectors per track -- you lose. RLL does 25, ERLL (Perstor) does 31... So if the driver expects 1-17 only... you may not see your full disk sizes (at best). Bill -- Bill Pechter | "The postmaster always pings twice." Pyramid Technology | bill@pyrite.nj.pyramid.com 10 Woodbridge Center Drive | rutgers!pyrnj!pyrite!bill Woodbridge, NJ 07095 (908)602-6308 | pyramid!pyrnj!pyrite!bill