> On Oct 23, 2025, at 7:27 PM, Christopher Zach via cctalk
> <[email protected]> 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
