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From: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MFM vs RLL drives
Message-ID: <1143@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 88 03:09:19 GMT
References: <8810190228.AA12474@baldwin.csri.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, WI
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In article <8810190228.AA12474@baldwin.csri.toronto.edu> drz@csri.toronto.edu (Jerry Zarycky) writes:
>This is probably a silly question, but is there any way to
>use an RLL drive in conjunction with the 2090A controller?
>I can get a 120 Meg MFM drive which is also a 180 Meg RLL drive
>and I hate to lose the extra 60 Meg.
>Can one buy an RLL controller and somehow magically interface it
>to the 2090A controller?

Well, you could always buy an Adaptec 4070 SCSI to ST506 controller, and
connect it to the SCSI port of your 2090A, but that seems incredibly
inefficient (not to say redundant), since the 2090A already has ST506!  Of
course, the 4070 card can be had for $100 to $130, depending upon the source,
and that amount of $$ doesn't seem too bad for another 60 meg of hard disk
space!

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  - Mike Shawaluk       (...!uunet!uwmcsd1!lakesys!mikes)