[comp.periphs] Seagate ST-11R RLL Controller

kaufman@maxzilla.Encore.COM (Lar Kaufman) (03/31/89)

I want to use a Seagate ST-11R RLL controller with other drives. 
What I have in mind is a 20 meg. Micropolis drive.  The ST-11R 
holds the low-level formatting routines in ROM and you select 
the format from a menu of Seagate drive configurations (Seagate 238, 
277, etc.).
 
I suspect another format program on disk could be substituted to 
format for drives of other formats. Is this true, and if so, where 
can I find such a beast?  Will I instead have to burn a custom ROM, 
or what?
 
My assumption is that if I use a "compatible" drive corresponding to 
the appropriate Seagate, that it will work. Are there caveats to this?
 
  -lar
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