echadez@isis.cs.du.edu (Edward Vincent Chadez) (05/20/91)
Does anyone know if there exists an RLL controller for the Amiga500?? -Ed.
ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) (05/21/91)
In article <1991May20.151732.7341@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> echadez@isis.cs.du.edu (Edward Vincent Chadez) writes: >Does anyone know if there exists an RLL controller for the Amiga500?? > >-Ed. The higher capacity SCSI disk drives typically use RLL encoding. For all I know, all the available SCSI 3.5" hard drives use RLL, so therefore any hard drive you bought would be an RLL drive. You see, SCSI is a high level intelligent interface that insulates the host computer from minor details such as MFM vs RLL (vs GCR?) bit encoding. On IBM PCs and such, it's still mostly true that the card plugged into the computer determines whether the recording method is MFM or RLL. But with SCSI, this is invisible (except on drive manufacturer's spec sheets). -- Richard Krehbiel, private citizen ckp@grebyn.com (Who needs a fancy .signature?)