keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) (01/23/90)
In article <90011904272373@masnet.uucp> jf.messier@canremote.uucp (JF MESSIER) writes:
]>> Is it possible to use a MFM hard disk drive with an RLL
]>> controller?
]>The basic problem is that the coating on the disk is not designed to
]>handle the density of data used by the RLL format, and it WILL
]>'forget' what you have stored there.
]
] I had a really bad experience with such controllers. At Revenue
]Canada, we have a lot of Epson Equiti I+, each with a 30M hard disk
](in fact, a 20M and a RLL controller). BUT, the drives used were
]Miniscribe, NOT APPROVED for RLL, so MFM-ONLY.
^^^^^^^^^^
]...
]When Epson came to change the HD, they brought ST-236,
^^^^^^
]which are RLL-approved, but they had to try 16 of these to find 5 that
]worked in the computers. They had to come 4 times and they wasted a lot
]of time in testing those drives. Even after all drives were installed,
]we had other bad sectors appearing on the disks....
]
] STAY AWAY FROM RLL, PLEASE......... !!!!
This should be:
Stay away from Miniscribe.
Stay away from Seagate.
kEITHewdarden@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Bill Darden <wdarden>) (02/03/90)
I have been using a Miniscribe 8425 (20 MB MFM) on an Adaptec 2072A Control on a XT for over six months without a problem. It formats out to 31 MB and makes a lot less noise than my Seagate ST-238. BiLL.....