mdonahue@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (12/01/89)
I have heard some rumors that seagate has put hardware in some of its MFM drives to prevent them from being formatted RLL (In this way you are forced to purchase a "RLL" drive from seagate to use them RLL. As I said this was rumored but it may be true and could be causing your problem. This is what happens one company gets control of 70 % of the market. Mike
cth_co@tekno.chalmers.se (CHRISTER OLSSON) (12/01/89)
In article <7700091@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu>, mdonahue@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > I have heard some rumors that seagate has put hardware in some of its MFM > drives to prevent them from being formatted RLL (In this way you are forced to > purchase a "RLL" drive from seagate to use them RLL. As I said this was rumored but it may be true and could be causing your problem. This is what happens one company gets control of 70 % of the market. Mike Older seagates has so bad components in disk hardware. They can't be formatted in RLL. It's not some type of RLL-protection. (i.e older ST225 and ST238)