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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (Wm. E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Experiences wanted with ST251 and W.D. RLL controllers
Keywords: ST251, RLL, Western Digital, etc.
Message-ID: <13579@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 11 Apr 89 20:01:21 GMT
References: <1495@fredonia.UUCP> <13557@steinmetz.ge.com> <7692@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <7692@thorin.cs.unc.edu> leech@zeta.UUCP (Jonathan Leech) writes:
| In article <13557@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
| >that's not a problem. About 70% of all ST251's seem to work RLL. Try it,
| >what have you got to lose (assuming you keep backups).
| 
|     The cost of either an RLL controller or the ST251.

  Remember, the original posting said that the parts were on hand...
unless you are one of those people who think that running RLL on an MFM
drive will "melt the controller," "blow the oxide off the disk," or
"corrupt the MFM bits," how could it cost anything but a bunch of time.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me