Re: MFM -- RLL drive

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From: Phil Ngai
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 17:37

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In article <o4D5P1w162w@zooid.UUCP> dve@zooid.UUCP (David Mason) writes:
|From what I've been told, the main hazard of formatting an MFM drive RLL 
|comes from long term usage - the drive would be more likely to expire since  
|RLL uses "more" of the disk. So a short term test wouldn't help.

This is misinformation, untrue, etc etc.

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