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mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes:

> Back it up, borrow an RLL controller from a close friend, and try it.
> 
> If it formats with only a few bad sectors, then buy an RLL controller
> and count your megabytes.  Otherwise, reformat it with MFM.

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.
 
However, I believe if I periodically reformat the hard disk (low level, with 
a program such as Optune) I should be ok.

Thanks for your comments. They are useful to me.