lee@gdc.portal.com (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy) (03/12/91)
Hi, I know this can be done, I just want to know how reliable it is. I'm talking about formatting an MFM drive with an RLL controller. I have a very reliable Hitachi MFM drive that I want to format in RLL format (need more disk space). I'd like to hear from people who have done this about long term reliability. I want to be able to run Xenix 386 on this system. Does anyone knows is Xenix supports RLL's 26 sector tracks? Thanks Seng-Poh Lee lee@gdc.portal.com
tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu (Carl Schelin) (03/12/91)
In article <13901@life.ai.mit.edu>, lee@gdc.portal.com (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy) says: > >Hi, >I know this can be done, I just want to know how reliable it is. > >I'm talking about formatting an MFM drive with an RLL controller. I have >a very reliable Hitachi MFM drive that I want to format in RLL format (need >more disk space). I'd like to hear from people who have done this about >long term reliability. I want to be able to run Xenix 386 on this system. Does >anyone knows is Xenix supports RLL's 26 sector tracks? > >Thanks > >Seng-Poh Lee lee@gdc.portal.com Hardware: Priam V170 (MFM) & V185 (RLL) Western Digital RLL controller (1003-RA2? Not sure) 286-10Mhz clone 386-25Mhz clone Work done (286): Compile basic and c code with MegBasic/QBasic & MSC/TC Run BBS two seperate times for three months. Boards were moderately active. Work done (386): Compile C code using MSC/SDK and TC/TC++ OS/2 PM/MS-Dos/3+Open Lan Manager/Windows 3.0 Create network programs for 3+Share. Time Period: Bought in summer '87 Bought 386 last September ('90) Turn on computer at 5pm (get home) and turn off at 10pm (go to bed). Run on weekends from 10:30am until go to bed (about midnight on average). Carl Schelin tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu