3 Sep
2010
3 Sep
'10
3:39 a.m.
On 1 September 2010 22:03, Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> wrote:
My understanding is that there's enough variation
in the low level
formatting between controllers that MFM drives aren't very portable.
That could be interpreted as timing differences between models, or as
timing variations in different instances of the same model, or even
actual structure differences. ?I don't know which was meant by whatever
source told me this long ago.
This was as I recall it, too, but back in the '80s I did occasionally
successfully move ST506 MFM and RLL drives between controllers. Always
in fairly generic IBM-branded kit, though.
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