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Miniscribe 30 Meg

    31-Jan-88 12:50:54
Sb: #106442-Miniscribe 30 Meg
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Claude J. Gosch 75305,771
Claude, The 8438 is the RLL certified 8425. You need an RLL controller to get the full 30 Meg out of it. With a controller like the 2090, you only get 20 Meg from it since it is an MFM controller. Every drive that can use RLL encoded data, can also use MFM encoded data but not vice-versa. Don