Subject: Re: bad144
To: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/20/2002 22:22:31
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> 
> > > Does someone else but me find it funny but silly that bad144 isn't built
> > > on the VAX, but is built on alpha and i386?
> > > 
> > Not really :-) The hp drivers do not support bad144 bad block forwarding
> > but the x86 st506 wd driver (is supposed to) do.
> 
> Yikes. That means we need error-free media...
> 
Do you have many RP06 in use? :-)
Note that bad144 is only used on Massbus disks, nothing else uses it. MSCP
disks have their own bad block replacement strategy.

-- Ragge