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From: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard drive kits
Message-ID: <5686@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 21 Jan 89 21:11:28 GMT
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Reply-To: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <874@cacilj.UUCP> paul@cacilj.UUCP (Paul Close) writes:
[after some talk on the "MFM for RLL" trick]
>P.S. Does anyone have any experience using either the Seagate or the
>Miniscribe?  Would you recommend either?

Well, I don't know about the Seagate, or even about the Miniscribe in
the Atari context, but I spoke to an engineer at Miniscribe a 
few weeks ago and he said: 1) We do NOT recommend using the MFM drive
as an RLL drive, and 2) The RLL version of the drive should only cost
about ten dollars more anyway.  I called a dealer and found this to be
the case for one Miniscribe drive whose model number escapes me right
now... Given the amount of money you save vs. the pain of having the
drive turn bad one day, I don't know if the difference is worth it.

-Antonio Romero    romero@confidence.princeton.edu