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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Encoding
Message-ID: <3448@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 19 Jun 91 15:54:26 GMT
References: <12852@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <12852@pucc.Princeton.EDU> SETH@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes:
| I am currently running a 40MB Western Digital Hard Drive that is using ARLL
| encoding.  I have the opportunity to buy a 60MB drive that uses RLL encoding.
| I would like to run them in tandem as I am out of room of the 40MB and could
| fill up quite a bit of the 60MB.  My question is, "Is it possible to run these
| two drives in tandem even though they use different encoding?  In other words,
| is this new RLL drive going to be compatible with my old ARLL drive?"

  The controller sets the encoding, the drive has a "suggested" encoding
from the vendor. I have used many MFM drives with RLL and ARLL. I would
not expect any problem at all.
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bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
  GE Corp R&D Center, Information Systems Operation, tech support group
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