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From: kory@avatar.UUCP (Kory Hamzeh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: ST-251 Drives as RLL?
Message-ID: <129@avatar.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 89 19:19:25 GMT
References: <117@mnopltd.UUCP> <1989Dec15.165414.3335@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1933@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: kory@.UUCP (Kory Hamzeh)
Organization: Kory Hamzeh, Canoga Park, Ca, USA
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In article <1933@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>  While ANY MFM drive can fail with RLL, I have never seen the problem
>you describe. They usually die within a day or run until they die of
>natural causes. Obviously every drive has a finite lifespan, no matter
>how it's used.
>-- 
>bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)

Thats not true. I had several different kinds of MFM drives sold to me
as RLL. They would all work fine for about a couple of months, then they
would develope a couple of new bad sectors a day. Just because the drive
works for a day or two, it doesn't mean that there will be long term
reliability.


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