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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (ody)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help needed formatting with RLL
Keywords: CDC hard disks, RLL controller, WD
Message-ID: <1621@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Date: 10 Aug 89 19:15:42 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY
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In article <[24e032df:4864.1]comp.ibmpc;1@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:

| The WD board will take care of the rest.
| 
| We use (and sell) 'em here; they're nice and FAST.

  Be sure you have a good book when doing the surface test. It is very
complete but stops after each error and asks if you want to mark the
sector bad. Other than that it's fast, cheap, reliable, and after
putting one in a problem machine of my own I have gotten WD's for three
other happy people.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me