[Coco] hard drive questions

Bob Devries devries.bob at gmail.com
Mon Jun 12 20:45:07 EDT 2006


Curtis said:
>     An RLL drive would probably be the old 2 cable XT style, wouldn't it?

Some SCSI and IDE drives are quoted as using RLL encoding *internally*. RLL 
is a compression technique which is also used in some picture storage 
methods. The "2,7" refers to the amount of compression IIRC.

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