RE: /proc/bus/pci

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

	Hello Riley ,

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi James.
>  >> All forms of hard disk interface - that I do know.
>  >> ST-506 = Seagate Technology model 506 hard drive
>  >>          (which set the MFM and RLL standards)
>  >	st506 was ONLY mfm. There were no st506 drive that had
>  >	RLL encodings.

> Curiously enough, my first hard drive was an ST-506 used with
> an RLL controller for the usual 45% increase in capacity. All
> I can say is that it worked fine from when I bought it new
> (for £350.00) through to when I had to replace the (genuine
> IBM) PC/XT motherboard after it failed.
	Yes ,  After formatting it on an RLL based controller .
	Also 'some' of the RLL controllers would recognise a st506
	mfm formatted drive & use it .
	To the best of my knowledge there never was an Segate labeled
	st-506 that was RLL encoded .

> The new motherboard was a 386dx/25 and had on-board IDE and
> related, so I had to get an IDE drive at the same time.
	Yeah I can understand that one .  Did you use the rll controller
	to transfer the data ? or ?

> Oh - yes, I was shocked at the speed difference between the
> two systems. Then again, who wouldn't be...
	YES !!! ,  Of course I was quite happily suprised at the speed
	differance found going from DEC RL02's to those st506's ;-) .
		Twyl ,  JimL
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