Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!julian!uwovax!16012_3045 From: 16012_3045@uwovax.uwo.ca (Paul Gomme) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Anyone running RLL on Miniscribe 3650? Message-ID: <685@uwovax.uwo.ca> Date: 23 Sep 88 14:42:47 GMT References: <461@upvax.UUCP> <903@skinner.nprdc.arpa> Lines: 19 Organisation: Department of Economics, UWO, London, Ontario, Canada In article <903@skinner.nprdc.arpa>, malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) writes: > In article <461@upvax.UUCP> stevewa@upvax.UUCP (Steve Ward) writes: > |I've seen notes from time to time suggesting that the media on the > |Miniscribe 3650 is good enough to use as an RLL drive. < stuff deleted > > There was no problem formatting it using PerStor's format utility, and > (modulo the two drive defects) gave me a formatted capacity of 38 > megabytes, which I've partitioned into two 19 Mb drives. < more deleted > Wait a second! I have a Miniscribe 3650, and it formats to 40 meg _without_ any sort of RLL controller. As a matter of fact, I have a small C: drive (less than a meg), and two 20 meg partitions. Why does the PerStor RLL controller give almost the same as my drive (without RLL)? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Gomme gomme@uwovax.bitnet