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Ron, Cost effectiveness is one thing, and cost is another thing altogether. You can buy a standard Seagate ST225 MFM drive for considerably less than any RLL drive. Remember, many folks are looking for the lowest cost solution with the best performance or capacity (or both) that they can find. The pieces bought now can serve as a base for expansion as the money comes available. it is interesting to note that quite a number of early Wedge purchasers are running 10 meg drives, and many of those have added a 20 or 40 to the initial setup. For some, it meant the difference between running hard drives or staying with floppies. RLL was extremely unreliable when it was first introduced. It is better now, but still not up to MFM in reliability. Part of this is due to the manufacturer's attempts to provide low cost RLL drives, and part of it is due to the more rigorous demands on the media itself. No idea if anyone has tried DPaint with a 2620. DPaint itself is an extremely ill behaved program, eating CPU cycles shamelessly while doing nothing, but if I get my 2620 (probably March), I'll give it a try. Note that I have no problems at all with DPaintt and the 2090. None. Continued…