tbrown@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Thomas Brown [901015]) (11/06/90)
In article <510003@hprpcd.HP.COM> patf@hprpcd.HP.COM (pat fung) writes: > > The Deico controller card does not have on board BIOS. It is an >indication it is not a RLL controller. You have 65MB of MFM storage from your >disk. The fact that the controller does not use an internal BIOS has absolutely nothing do to with the encoding method which it uses; if the disk was intended as a 65MB RLL drive, it can still be formatted under MFM albeit with lower capacity. Conversely, MFM-intended drives should *NOT* be formatted under RLL (only for the reason of reliability). If the controller does not have it's own BIOS, formatting may be possible using a program such as Ontrack's Disk Manager or the like, provided you know the parameters (heads, cyls, precomp, LZ, etc.) for your drive. -Tom