NU158739@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Shaun Wetzstein) (03/06/91)
I have a Microlis 1335 (71-Meg MFM) HD and I want to get a RLL/ ERLcard. Is this drive capable of being formatted w/ a RLL card? A "mail-order-tech" claimed any MFM drive can be formatted to RLL but it might by unstable -- if the drive even works at all. Shaun Wetzstei -- NU158739@NDSUVM1.BITNET
keithe@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) (03/08/91)
In article <91064.144907NU158739@NDSUVM1.BITNET> NU158739@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Shaun Wetzstein) writes: >I have a Microlis 1335 (71-Meg MFM) HD and I want to get a RLL/ ERLcard. >Is this drive capable of being formatted w/ a RLL card? I'd be tempted to at least give it a try. Micropolis are pretty good drives. I wouldn't RLL a Seagate (or *own* one, for that matter) on a bet! >A "mail-order-tech" claimed any MFM drive can be formatted to RLL but it >might by unstable -- if the drive even works at all. Disks that don't "take" to RLL formatting can be somewhat difficult to recognize and/or diagnose. The symptom is, for lack of a better phrase, Alzheimer's Disease of the Disk Drive: it remembers things "for a while" but seems to forget things, losing more and more as time goes by... null *keithe()