Does ESIX still not support RLL?

[Mark A. Emanuele]

In article <513 at pyrite.nj.pyramid.com>, bill at pyrite.nj.pyramid.com (Bill Pechter) writes:
> In article <3080 at cirrusl.UUCP> Rahul Dhesi <dhesi at cirrus.COM> writes:
> >
> >How can ESIX even know whether the controller uses RLL?  How can
> >anybody find this out without ripping the disk apart and analyzing the
> >bit-patterns stored on the platter?
> 
> If there's more than the standard number of MFM sectors per track -- you lose.
> RLL does 25, ERLL (Perstor) does 31... So if the driver expects 1-17 only...
> you may not see your full disk sizes (at best).
> 



For all it's bad points, SCO DOES support all kinds of ODD Hard disks.
That's one of the reasons I still use it.










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