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Stefan E=DFer <se@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Ok. I've also thought some about this, and I think that different media
> might need different methods (i.e. MFM vs. RLL vs. PRML, but also vs.=20
> Flash media).

PRML is not an encoding scheme like MFM or RLL, it is an algorithm for
recovering a bitstream from a weak analog signal.  Modern disks mostly
use RLL encoding.

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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no