Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihlpf!cem
From: cem@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: 1:1 interleave controllers
Summary: how they tell!
Message-ID: <6301@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 88 13:03:13 GMT
References: <241@horizon.UUCP> <17700021@clio> <40430@linus.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <40430@linus.UUCP>, sid@linus.UUCP (Sid Stuart) writes:
> In article <17700021@clio> berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu writes:
> >
> >If you take the route of selling an ST-4096 that has been formatted
> >under RLL, successfully or not, please be sure to tell the purchaser.
> >Seagate absolutely will not service the drive, in or out of warranty.
> 
> Yes, but if you reformat it with an MFM controller, how are they going
> to tell it has been formatted with an rll?
> 
> I am not being sarcastic, I really want to know.

      I also wanted to know so I called Seagate and asked.  They said
that the first thing that the "techs" do is a low level format of any
drive that is sent back for repair.  So, if you format an MFM drive
as RLL, they will not know it since they will low level format it to
MFM before they do anything else.

      If you do a low level format of a previously formated drive,
the previous format will NEVER be known.

Clancy Malloy
...!ihlpf!cem