DEC RD54 from Maxtor

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Tue Mar 4 16:08:00 2003

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Antonio Carlini wrote:

> > Avoid the RD53 at all costs... it is the most problematic of
> > the RD series drives. The RD54 in my experience is the most
> > reliable, and I have a number of them in machines still working.
I have to second that.. they get stuck. The RD54's, albeit noisy
beasts, still go here, or, at least, most of them.

(Yes, Wilko, I'll come and pick up the stuff this weekend..)

> Unless you use Wolfgang Moeller's modified ROMs - then I believe
> that SCSI will work. (IIRC the modified VS/UV2K ROMs also
> incoroporate the >1GB fix ... but it's been a long time since
> I looked).
Given the DMA structure of the VS2000 SCSI port, connecting disks
to that port will be dramatically slow.

Fred
Received on Tue Mar 04 2003 - 16:08:00 GMT