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From: Dan Zenchelsky
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 04:00

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Does  anybody  know  what  the limits of the disk hardware (in terms of RAW
data)  are.   I know that it uses MFM, which basically means no more than 3
0-bits  in  sucession, and any 1-bit must be surrounded by 0-bits .  Can it
handle more than this?                                                     
                                                                           
On a related issue, can someone give me a quick rundown of how RLL encoding
works?                                                                     
                                                                           
Thanks a lot                                                               
-Dan

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| ||    |o|     Dan Zenchelsky     |                                        |
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| |  ___  |  dzenc@gnu.ai.mit.edu  |    indistinguishable from a feature.   |
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Subject: Disk harware limits
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