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



Patrick Schaefer wrote:
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 developed their own amplifier board with an ECL logic GCR data separator.

Now *that's* cool (or, rather, hot ;-).  This must be the only use
of ECL ever made by Apple!

-michael

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