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Article #3430Re : RLL Interface
From: Conway Yee
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 15:57
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 15:57
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I posted a message which is slightly in error. The drive types for an RLL drive do not exist on a IBM AT. Thus, disk manager is required to access the full potential of the drive. Alternative solutions is to use a user defined drive which some ROMs support. Below is the email message I recieved. Conway Yee ======================================================== From sigma@pawl.rpi.edu Thu Sep 20 20:53:08 1990 >In article <1403@atlas.tegra.COM> vail@tegra.COM (Johnathan Vail) writes: >> >>I was given a RLL controller (Western Digital) for an AT. Does it >>require special software and drivers or is it treated the same as a >>"normal" MFM controller? >If you have an RLL drive, just connect the sucker up and off you go! NO - he wants to put it in an AT, which has CMOS setup, which leads to problems with which drive types his ROM knows, which are probably all MFM drives, so if he just hooks it up and auto-configures, he loses 50% or more of his drive capacity right there! Solutions: Disk Manager, new ROM, drive type 47. Conway Yee, N2JWQ email : yee@ming.mipg.upenn.edu (preferred) USnail: 231 S. Melville St. cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu Philadelphia, Pa 19139 yee@bnlx26.nsls.bnl.gov (never checked) (215) 386-1312
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!news From: cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Conway Yee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re : RLL Interface Message-ID: <1990Sep25.155715.20257@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 25 Sep 90 15:57:15 GMT Sender: news@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Daily News) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 29