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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MFM as an RLL drive?
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Date: 19 Dec 89 18:54:21 GMT
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In article <44809@bu-cs.BU.EDU> ngeow@cs.bu.edu (Yee Ngeow) writes:
|  I formatted a Seagate ST-412 10Meg MFM drive (Yes, straight out of an
|IBM PC/XT) using a WD 1002-27X RLL controller. It formats, yes, no problem. 
|Did not give me one single bad sector. I was pretty happy, since now I get
|15+ Megs out of the drive. After running it for 10 minutes, suddently it
|went nuts, making really loud noise, and smell of burned plastic and soder
|hit me. I turned it off immediately, and the logic board is totally fried.

I simply don't believe that your drive fried because of running RLL.
You probably hooked it up wrong or dropped a screwdriver on it. We
already know that you don't know what RPM means. I don't believe
anything you have to say on this subject. 

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