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From: paul@cgh.UUCP (Paul Homchick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 1:1 interleaving MFM controllers; and RLL
Message-ID: <770@cgh.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 88 01:09:42 GMT
References: <11272@spl1.UUCP> <9440002@hpcuhb.HP.COM> <4401@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: paul@cgh.UUCP (Paul Homchick)
Organization: Chimitt Gilman Homchick, Radnor, PA
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In article <4401@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM> keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) writes:
>In article <9440002@hpcuhb.HP.COM> raphael@hpcuhb.HP.COM (Bert Raphael) writes:
>>I have a ... WD1006-WAH 1-1 controller
>>Seems like a winner to me.
>
>...except for the fact that it doesn't have the floppy controller
>on-board

Western Digital is now selling a WD1006-MM2 and a WD1006-RM2 which are
the MFM and RLL 1:1 controllers with a flopply controller attached.  I
have one of the MFM controllers and it works like a champ.  I swapped
cards with the WD1003 that used to be there, rebooted and used the
non-destructive format feature of SPEESTORE to reformat in place to a
1:1 interleave.  The whole process took about 30 minutes and doubled my
hard disk throughput. 

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