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From: dragon@oliveb.UUCP (Give me a quarter or I'll touch you)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 20MB or 30MB?
Message-ID: <1328@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jun-87 15:20:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 10 15:20:14 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 05:37:45 EDT
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in article <20814@sun.uucp>, dbercel@sun.uucp (Danielle Bercel, MIS Systems Programming) says:
> 
> I'm wondering if the people with the new ST238s are having problems
> because of the RLL format being used and the old ST238s are
> problem free because they are not using the RLL format?
> 
> danielle


I don't think that's the problem... to get 30 megs out of an ST238 one MUST
use an RLL controller.  The ST238 is the same physical layout as an ST225
(20 megabytes) but if used with an RLL controller, both yield about 30
megs.  The 238 is advertised as being 'RLL' capable, supporting the
increased performance demands placed on the drives by the RLL controllers.


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