Date   : Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:08:24 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: [Announce] BBC Hard Drives Package (for supporting emulators)

In article <65f989164c.Beeb@...>, Jon Ripley
<beeb@...> writes

>PS If you're throwing away a large (in Mb) MFM or RLL drive please get
>in touch, I've been looking for almost a decade now and I have a very
>good home for it.

The largest MFM/RLL drive commercially available was about 150Mb.  You'd
be lucky to find anything over 60Mb, and even luckier if it still works.
:)

BTW:  there's no RLL controller for the Beeb to my belief - only MFM.
So if you were to use an RLL drive with the standard Beeb HD controller
(Adaptec SASI to MFM controller board), you'll only obtain 2/3rds of the
usable capacity.

Mike

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