Esix Rev D. FFS and/or SCSI -- beware

[Kaleb Keithley]

In article <2256 at jwt.UUCP> john at jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:
>I haven't seen anyone on this thread point out that RLL is *not*
>officially supported by ESIX.  The certified hardware compatibility
>list does not include any RLL controllers.  As I understand it,
>you're on your own running RLL with ESIX.  If it works, great; if it
>doesn't, too bad.
>-- 
>John W. Temples -- john at jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)

Ah, but that's where you're wrong.  In the rev C installation manual (not
their advertising literature, not what their sales staff say) it states
that ST506 interfaces, MFM and RLL are supported.  In the rev D manual, 
they have changed this to just say ST506 interfaces, with no mention of 
encoding schemes.  Now all of this is subject to some amount of interpretation, 
but I expect RLL is still considered ST506 in most peoples books.

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Kaleb Keithley                      Jet Propulsion Labs
kaleb at thyme.jpl.nasa.gov

"So that's what an invisible barrier looks like!"