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- From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
- Subject: Re: SEAGATE 4096 80Meg MFM
- Message-ID: <C0quwu.KvH@panix.com>
- Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC
- References: <1is6eeINNhaj@phakt.usc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:00:30 GMT
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- In article <1is6eeINNhaj@phakt.usc.edu> hho@usc.edu (*** N.T.K.C.D. ***) writes:
- >Hello world,
- >
- >I have just acquired a Seagate 4096 80meg MFM drive. Unfortunately,
- >my system has a RLL controller with a Mitsubishi 65Meg in it.
- >
- >Will the Seagate be able to work with an RLL controller to get
- >26 sector/track instead of the 17??
-
- Depends on the vintage. If it's the later model with only one PC board
- (rather than one on top and one on bottom) it's going to be a nightmare.
-
- The later 4096's contain bandwidth limiting circuitry to SPECIFICALLY
- =PREVENT= you from using RLL formatting.
-
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