Author: Jan Thomas (ams3gw.eur.nai.com)
Date: 04-11-2001 12:50
Although MFM and RLL are not the same, they are very similar, and differ only in the format of the platters. (Its a different encoding scheme). I had a 30mb MFM drive, running on an RLL controller in a 386 PC, and once I had low level formatted it, (you jump into the format routine built into the controller BIOS) it made ~47mb.
To hook two drives together, you need 3 cables. There is one control cable that attaches to both drives (chained like IDE), and one 20pin data cable for EACH drive.
I guess this doesn't help you much though :|
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