Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!RADC-TOPS20.ARPA!GUBBINS From: GUBBINS@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA (Gern) Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100 Subject: Z-100 Winnie cards and RLL drives Message-ID: <12395155285.5.GUBBINS@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA> Date: 2 May 88 18:21:34 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 15 The ST-225 is a good choice. It is very common, very cost effective, ZDS supports it, and it is the one that I and most other Z-100 users bought as well. The Z-100 winnie set is not a RLL controller, but does something along the same approach. A ST-225 will format to 20,000,xxx bytes on a PC, but with the ZDS cards in a Z-100 it will format to 22,500,xxx bytes. 2.5MB more for a card set that was available before the PCs controller was! And much faster too! I do not know if a ST-238 RLL drive will function without a RLL controller, so I would not recommend it. The ST-238 is almost a ST-225 internally that is being pushed to 30MB with the RLL encoding scheme. Too risky! Cheers, Gern -------