23 Oct
2025
23 Oct
'25
6:36 p.m.
On Oct 23, 2025, at 7:27 PM, Christopher Zach via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Wow. I still run maxtor rd54 drives on one of my 11s and rd53s on the pro 380s. Work fine
enough
Gesswins device is outstanding, I have one and have used it to make backup images of all
sorts of systems.
My Pro has one also. Among other things, it allowed me to debug a low level formatting
utility without having to worry about destroying the few drives I own. And it let me
experiment with alternate formatting settings (different interleaving) which to my great
surprise showed that the default is also best, independent of CPU speed. (Which means
that the controller is the problem and is pathetically slow.)
paul