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Article #15439Re: RLL controler
From: perkins
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1987 04:50
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1987 04:50
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> I just read about the RLL (Run Length Limited) controlers in the
> Febuary issue of Computer Shoper. It seems almost too good to be
> true. Has anyone tried these controlers that could report on their
> performance/compatibility?
> // Darren Friedlein ...{burl,cbosgd,ihnp4,mcnc}!ethos!darren //
I'm using an Adaptec RLL controller with a generic (i.e., cheap) hard
disk in my Compaq DeskPro. It works fine, and I'm now getting 30 Mb
instead of 20 Mb ... BUT I can't boot from hard disk anymore, since
Compaq's boot ROM (and Compaq DOS, too, but that's another story)
assumes 17 sectors/track. RLL encoding gives 25 sectors/track instead
of 17.
--
{hplabs,amdahl,3comvax}!bnrmtv!perkins --Henry Perkins
It is better never to have been born. But who among us has such luck?
One in a million, perhaps.
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