ST-251 Drives as RLL?

[John C. Archambeau]

neal at mnopltd.UUCP writes:
>->good to reformat an MFM drive as RLL or not.  I am interested if anyone
>->out there has taken an Seagate ST-251 42MB 40ms MFM drive, and formatted
>
>Yes. This will work.  For 5 months and 27 days.   It will roll over and die
>with skillions of bad blocks at 6 months.   Anyone who tells you otherwise
>is either a computer dealer who has been in business for less than 6 months
>or someone who doesn't really use his machine.  
>
>(Yarrg! Flames! Arf!)
>
>Okay; maybe it will work a little longer.  But make real frequent backups.

Heh, I'd love to hear how you got at that exact period of time.
 
     // JCA

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