9 Mar
2005
9 Mar
'05
11:30 a.m.
Geoff wrote:
i used to get burnt up 225's for free from a local
shop and replace the
amplifier chip on them (think it was an amp, i don't remember for certain
anymore) the chip just cuoldn't handle the higher frequency and datarate
that the drive was subjected to if run RLL, heck they chips fried
themselves eventually if you ran them MFM,
They did that whether you used RLL or MFM. The data format/rate was not
the issue.
Eric