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From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Two IDE questions
Message-ID: <1991May14.052800.26878@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 14 May 91 05:28:00 GMT
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dd2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Eugene Dwiggins) writes:

>First:

>IDE Drives are VERY different.  Statements like "IDE offers better performance
>than MFM and ESDI" are false simply because some IDE drives use MFM encoding,
>some use RLL, etc.

How does one tell the difference?

And how many different encoding systems, or other things, are relevant?
Is ESDI its own encoding system?
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