Does ESIX still not support RLL?

[Jon Gefaell]

In article <1991Apr25.200115.12310 at mccc.edu> pjh at mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>In article <3087 at cirrusl.UUCP> Rahul Dhesi <dhesi at cirrus.COM> writes:
>=The following is directed not towards Bill, but towards many Usenet
>=users who assume that RLL is some sort of disk interface standard.
>=It's not!  It's just a way of putting bit patterns on the disk
>=surface.  And it wasn't invented by Adaptec either.  RLL means "run
>=length limited" -- a way of recording bits such that you never have
>=more than m consecutive raw ones or n consecutive raw zeroes.  Tape
>
>In fact, what we call RLL here is actually only one of many possible RLL
>schemes.  I believe that the "proper" name is "RLL 2,7."  And if I
>haven't lost too many brain cells, I think I recall that MFM is RLL 1,3.
>
>Pete
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Exactly! and 34 sectors is yielded by 3,9 RLL encoding.
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