MFM/RLL data recovery

[Fred Cisin]

> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:21 -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> > Now, I'm either doing something wrong or all these drives are dead.
> > I am using a floppy cable with a twist in it and a 20-pin data cable.
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
> I don't remember ever using a twisted cable with a hard disk, only with
> floppy drive (and then only in the PC world). I think both control /
> data cables should just be straight through.

IBM used a twisted cable with their hard disks - in order to avoid having
to explain "Drive Select" jumpers to their [Computerland level] dealers.

The hard drive cable twist is NOT the same twist as for floppies!

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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com