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- From: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Seagate ST506 interface
- Keywords: ST506 Seagate interface
- Message-ID: <366@chorus.chorus.fr>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 00:54:25 GMT
- References: <17bdvdINN162@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
- Sender: mir@chorus.chorus.fr
- Reply-To: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)
- Organization: Chorus systemes, Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France
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- In article <17bdvdINN162@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>, bagels@gotham.East.Sun.COM (Alex Beigelman - NYC SE) writes:
- %% Hi,
- %%
- %% Does anyone know what the interface is for a Seagate ST506?. RLL? MFM?
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- The interface for the ST506 drive is named ST506, because
- that was probably the first drive with a ST506 interface... :-)).
-
- It must have a 5MB capacity.
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- Of course, the encoding was MFM. The RLL encoding came later,
- and is not related of the ST506 interface (a layer over it).
-
- Do you really want to install such an oldie in your computer?
-
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