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Subject: Re: Microtek Hard Disk Controllers
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Date: 10 Feb 88 13:29:27 GMT
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In article <9475@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <2740@swan.ulowell.edu> boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (Debugger) writes:

[Warning against Microtek HDC-1000 Hard Disk Controller]

>
>My IBM rep tells me that some RLL controllers use sector sizes other
>than 512, and that this causes no end of problems with DOS 3.3. Don't be
>too quick to blame the controller, but if (a) it's RLL, and (b) if you
>can use standard sector sizes, you may be able to solve your own problem
>at the cost of a little disk capacity.
>-- 
>	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)

The manual to the HDC-1000 makes no mention of it being an RLL controller
(which I doubt it is) and nothing about changing sector sizes. Microtek
admits that it is a bug, but will not do anything about it.

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