Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!esosun!cogen!celerity!rpo
From: rpo@celerity.UUCP (Bob Ollerton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: RLL on a ST-225
Message-ID: <532@celerity.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 88 00:18:17 GMT
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I was sold a rll with my ST225.  I had nothing but problems with
data erros and the drive foing to sleep.  I got no help from the dealer,
and the disk finally crashed.  Thanks.

So, I bought another disk and a standard MFM controller and everything is
fine.  Lesson learned:
    1. the St225 is a cheap drive and has a track record for failing
    in the first 30 days and if they make it past that, the run for ever.

    2.  RLL is a problem for the 225's and I don't know which drives
    its recommended for.

Does anyone have a list of drives that RLL works for?