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Article #9915Re: please tell me how to co-install RLL & MFM hard drives....PLEASE!
From: Cheong Hyeon Choi
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 03:32
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 03:32
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In article <76334@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v087mxgb@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu writes: >I have a type 2 - 20 Mb MFM hard drive installed (works fine) > >I received a 30 Mb RLL drive FREE!!! and want to use both > >Ive heard that I can, but how do I do this....both have a >controller card for my 286 machine, how do I partition them >and set one as drive 0 and one as drive 1, etc.... > Hi. Yes, I had the same experience. In this case, you try to format MFM drives as RLL if your two MFM drive is products of Seagate. After that, you are getting more disk capacities. With my experience, there had been no problem. But I don't know exactly why it works but very fine. As I know, the capacity of the MFM drive is going to increase by 50%. Do it. Choi`
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven.umd.edu!uflorida!eng.auburn.edu!chchoi From: chchoi@eng.auburn.edu (Cheong Hyeon Choi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: please tell me how to co-install RLL & MFM hard drives....PLEASE! Message-ID: <chchoi.910514223205@banana.eng.auburn.edu> Date: 15 May 91 03:32:05 GMT References: <76334@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Organization: Auburn University Engineering Lines: 17