Re: MFM drive gone nuts

>with all sorts of different CHS configurations that had to be determined 
>and manually entered (at least until auto-configuration BIOSes came along);

The biggest problem was companies like Olivetti only including the 
configuration for drives they sold.

>and reading a given drive with a different controller than the one 
>originally used was (and is) almost always totally impossible.

That is like complaining you can't read Amiga disks in your PC floppy drive.

ST506 was a more effective standard, so at least you could use the drive 
with a different controller even if you had to reformat it and start again.


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