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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: FAST disks on PC AT clones
Message-ID: <622@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 88 15:35:31 GMT
References: <21346@amdcad.AMD.COM> <205@octopus.UUCP> <1006@spdcc.COM> <613@mccc.UUCP> <212@octopus.UUCP> <618@mccc.UUCP> <214@octopus.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <214@octopus.UUCP> pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann) writes:
...In article <618@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
...>
...>[me]...	4) Anybody have experience with other brands?
...>
...>I've been running a Rodime 203E with an early Adaptec RLL controller
...>with excellent results for nearly two years.  However, no one should use
...>any HD with an RLL controller that is NOT certified for RLL formatting.
...
...I am certain that you shouldn't be so certain about this absolute prohibition
...:-) !
...
I can think of no circumstance in which I would ever recommend that
anyone use a drive not certified for RLL use with an RLL controller. 
Yep -- I'm positive.  :-)

...
...If you are the user, and the drive fails, it won't be the RLL's fault! If
...you start getting lots of data errors, *that* could be due to RLL, but all
...you have to do to fix it is re-do the low level format using non-RLL
...controller.

No one said it would be!  If you put low octane gas in an automobile
which requires high octane, and the engine knocks, do you blame the engine?

...
...Manufacturers *frequently* sell high-end equipment with low-end stickers
...on them. Why? It is cheaper to make a single product than two different
...ones. You sell it into two different markets, making more $$ from the
...people that can afford to pay more (and think they are getting more).

What about profit margins?  These people have to compete.

...
...Sorry! I try to answer the underlying general questions whenever I think
...that people are probably interested. I didn't realize that I missed
...your particular question in my answer. Maybe you can email me the specific
...Q I missed and I'll try again [your original article is already gone from
...here].
...

'Sokay!  I got the answer elsewhere.