ST-251 Drives as RLL?
Kory Hamzeh
kory at avatar.UUCP
Thu Dec 21 06:19:25 AEST 1989
In article <1933 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen at crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
> While ANY MFM drive can fail with RLL, I have never seen the problem
>you describe. They usually die within a day or run until they die of
>natural causes. Obviously every drive has a finite lifespan, no matter
>how it's used.
>--
>bill davidsen (davidsen at crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
Thats not true. I had several different kinds of MFM drives sold to me
as RLL. They would all work fine for about a couple of months, then they
would develope a couple of new bad sectors a day. Just because the drive
works for a day or two, it doesn't mean that there will be long term
reliability.
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