Re: 6085 RLL (does it work?)

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From: Derek E. Terveer
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 07:28

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richard@murna.asis.unimelb.edu.au (Richard Begg) writes:

> Is there anyone who has had success with RLL formatting a miniscribe 6085
> drive?  I just bought a RLL card for mine, and while it seems to work OK,
> I though I'd get spinrite to have a look at it.  It is failing an
> alarming number of the pattern tests.  Is this a common problem ?

I was able to format my 6085 with rll, but reformatting the same drive right
away again generally produced different bad blocks.  Also, i kept losing blocks
that i couldn't map out whilst running unix, which is "not a good thing."  I
finally gave up with rll on the drive.  I never was sure whether it was the
hardware (i.e., the drive) or the software (i.e., esix 5.3.2-d) since esix
specifically disclaimed support for rll drives.  Sigh....

derek
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Subject: Re: 6085 RLL (does it work?)
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