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From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2000 and hard disk drives
Message-ID: <797@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 88 19:30:17 GMT
References: <2602@crash.cts.com> <719@gethen.UUCP> <906@rmi.UUCP>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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In article <906@rmi.UUCP> shimoda@rmi.UUCP (Markus Schmidt) writes:
>In article <719@gethen.UUCP> farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) writes:
>: the only substantive difference between the two [Segate 225 and 238]
>:is that the 238 is RLL certified.
>
>Hmm. There is another unimportant difference between stf225 and 238
>As far as I know the 225 is a 20MB and the 238 is a 30MB drive.

You are not correct.  If you put a 238 on a 'standard' MFM controller,
you have a 20M drive.  The 238 is a 30M drive if, and ONLY if, you are
using it with an RLL controller.

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