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- From: grtorlba@sumax.seattleu.edu (George Torralba)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: **if setup say 17 sec/track and HD is RLL then what**
- Message-ID: <4922@sumax.seattleu.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 16:01:46 GMT
- Article-I.D.: sumax.4922
- References: <1992Sep1.090452.23441@cc.tut.fi> <la71o7INN9em@aludra.usc.edu>
- Organization: Seattle University, Seattle WA
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- In article <la71o7INN9em@aludra.usc.edu> hho@aludra.usc.edu (** N.T.K.C.D. ***) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep1.090452.23441@cc.tut.fi> vihuri@cc.tut.fi (Tapio Vihuri) writes:
- >>
- >>I use RLL controller (26 sectors/track) and I'd like to use this in my computer
- >>but, my CMOS setup knows only MFM drives because all drive table types says
- >>17 sectors. Bios is Award but type 48 don't work.
- >
- >I am using SpeedStor from Storage Dimention as a driver.
- >THe SStor will format and reset the drive to 26 sec/trac :-)
- >H.
- >
-
- Isn't it the controller's job to translate/remap the sectors? When I had
- an RLL subsystem using the DTC controller, I just entered a drive type which
- had the same head/cyl count as my drive and the on-board BIOS of the
- controller took care of the remapping/translating. Also, it could be that
- your BIOS (computer) does not support RLL drives which was what I ran into
- when I first bought my RLL subsytem and tried to put in my Epson Equity II+.
- It didn't quite make sense to me being that if the controller has it's own
- BIOS, I shouldn't have a problem using it in a machine with an older BIOS.
- Anyway, the subsytem did work after I upgraded to my current 386 system.
-
- George
-