Re: ESDI hard drive

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From: Dave McCrady
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:50

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lilley@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Shannon Lilley) writes:

- I have just acquired a full height hard drive that according to my book uses
- the ESDI/st506 interface. My question is can it be low level formatted with a
- MFM controller,with expected loss of capacity,without causing problems? I kno
- you can do this with RLL drives. Thanks.
- 
- Shannon Lilley
- lilley@spdc.ti.com
- 

   No.  The cabling for the drive is the same as the mfm/rll variety but the
similarity ends there.  It will not work with anything but an ESDI controller.

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Dave McCrady              davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca

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Subject: Re: ESDI hard drive
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