mitsolid@acf5.NYU.EDU (Thanasis Mitsolides) (12/02/89)
Hi, A friend of mine has a 72mb MFM drive (ATASI 3085) and he would like to try and format it using an RLL controler. If he succeeds great. If he fails, what? Is there any chance he might damage the drive during the testing? Would the drive still work with an MFM controler for sure? Thanks, Thanasis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Has it ever occured to you that God may be a committee?" R. A. Heinlein Internet: mitsolid@csd2.nyu.edu (mitsolid%csd2.nyu.edu@relay.cs.net) UUCP : ...!uunet!cmcl2!csd2!mitsolid -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BHB3@PSUVM.BITNET (12/04/89)
In article <11330004@acf5.NYU.EDU>, mitsolid@acf5.NYU.EDU (Thanasis Mitsolides) says: > >Hi, > A friend of mine has a 72mb MFM drive (ATASI 3085) and >he would like to try and format it using an RLL controler. > > If he succeeds great. > If he fails, what? > Is there any chance he might damage the drive during the testing? > Would the drive still work with an MFM controler for sure? > >Thanks, > >Thanasis > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >- >"Has it ever occured to you that God may be a committee?" R. A. Heinlein > >Internet: mitsolid@csd2.nyu.edu (mitsolid%csd2.nyu.edu@relay.cs.net) >UUCP : ...!uunet!cmcl2!csd2!mitsolid >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >- It shouldn't screw up the drive at all. It would either give alot of read errors or should work fine. That has been the experience of both a friend and I who have done it to many different drives. Western Digital RLL card seem to work better with MFM drives than Adaptec's. Brent H. Besler