Re: Profile low lever formatting...who're you gonna call?

Subject: Re: Profile low lever formatting...who're you gonna call?
From: Patrick Schaefer <PSchaefer@lycosxxl.de>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 21:56:47 +0200
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Veritas schrieb:

The ST506 is an MFM drive. Is it possible to use an old PC, with an
MFM controller, and a PC low level format utility?

There is a ST506 HDA inside, but no ST506 electronics. Apple developedtheir own amplifier board with an ECL logic GCR data separator.



Patrick

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