Does ESIX still not support RLL?

Bill Pechter bill at pyrite.nj.pyramid.com
Tue Apr 23 23:32:02 AEST 1991


In article <3080 at cirrusl.UUCP> Rahul Dhesi <dhesi at cirrus.COM> writes:
>
>How can ESIX even know whether the controller uses RLL?  How can
>anybody find this out without ripping the disk apart and analyzing the
>bit-patterns stored on the platter?

If there's more than the standard number of MFM sectors per track -- you lose.
RLL does 25, ERLL (Perstor) does 31... So if the driver expects 1-17 only...
you may not see your full disk sizes (at best).

Bill


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