> On May 27, 2026, at 8:15 AM, Anders Magnusson <[email protected]> wrote:
> bad144 is not used by NetBSD/vax. Well, that’s . . . awkward :-) > - MSCP drives have their own bad block replacement scheme. Yah, that’s what I thought. Thanks for confirming. > - On RP drives there is a need for BAD144 in the disk driver, but I have > never written that support - no RP drives I have used have had any bad blocks > so I haven't cared :-) Hah. Well, I don’t want to rip it out of the system entirely, but I do want to isolate it to only the places where it’s useful. If the number of those places is currently smaller by a handful, that is not my concern :-) > I'm quite unsure if there will ever be a need for BAD144 on any VAX drives. > People using NetBSD/vax on RP07 with bad blocks are probably very close to > NIL :-) I suspect the number of people using Xylogics SMD controllers on NetBSD/sun3 or NetBSD/sparc is also approximately NIL. But I don’t want to throw anyone under the bus. -- thorpej
