> Jim Richey enscribed thusly:
>
> > Does the MFM/RLL driver work with ESDI drives? If not is there a driver
> > fir ESDI?
>
> I've got several ESDI drives (Maxtor 760Meg, Micropolis 760Meg, and
> Micropolis 300Meg) running in numerous systems with a couple different
> flavors of ESDI controllers (Western Digital, DTC, and others). All are
> working great.
>
Yes, I'll second (third?) this. However, I had to play some tricks with
the geometry to work around what the controller does for sector sparing.
I'm running a Maxtor 760 on a WD controller. It's actually surprisingly
fast, considering the era it was built! Linear reads clock at ~1.6MB/s.
Steve