RLL Hard Drives
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When (or if) my A2000 Bridge Card arrives, I would like to add a 3 1/2" hard
disk that will work with an IBM controller, and partition part of it for the
Amiga. In selecting the hard disk I would like to retain the option of later
switching to the Amiga 2090 controller and using the HD only on the Amiga. I
have seen several 3 1/2" HD's that use RLL encoding and need a special IBM
controller for RLL. If I get an RLL HD and controller for the IBM side, will I
still be able to partition part of it for the Amiga side ? Second Question, if
I get an RLL HD would I be able to later run it with the A2090 ? I like the
larger capacities of the RLL drives for the IBM, but was afraid it would
require special adapters for the A2090 or special formatting utilities which
are not presently available. Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
Bill,
I'm not sure what happens if you want to partition part of an RLL drive for use
with the Amiga side, but my understanding of RLL drives is that they are
designed to meet the more severe requirements of RLL controllers, however, they
can be formatted with standard controllers. The one MAJOR glitch is that RLL
allows more storage on the drive (eg,. a 20 meg. becomes a 30 meg with RLL),
however if you format with a standard controller, you get standard capacity
(eg. the 20 megs. NOT 30 as the RLL would supply).
Claude