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From: neal@mnopltd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: ST-251 Drives as RLL?
Message-ID: <117@mnopltd.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 89 23:48:20 GMT
Reply-To: gatech!stiatl!mnopltd!neal
Organization: MNOP Ltd., Atlanta, Ga.
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->good to reformat an MFM drive as RLL or not.  I am interested if anyone
->out there has taken an Seagate ST-251 42MB 40ms MFM drive, and formatted

Yes. This will work.  For 5 months and 27 days.   It will roll over and die
with skillions of bad blocks at 6 months.   Anyone who tells you otherwise
is either a computer dealer who has been in business for less than 6 months
or someone who doesn't really use his machine.  

(Yarrg! Flames! Arf!)

Okay; maybe it will work a little longer.  But make real frequent backups.


Neal Rhodes
MNOP Ltd
Lilburn (atlanta) GA 30247
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