Subject: Re: how do use use rabads to repair a ST-225 drive
To: None <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: John Wilson <wilson@dbit.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 09/12/2004 19:39:48
From: Kirk Russell <kirk@ba23.org>
>I had assumed that the RQDX3 would require extra software to do the bad
>block replacement because the RQDX3 might not have the firmware to do the
>bad block replacement by itself.
As you found, the RQDX3 does indeed do controller-initiated BBR. There's
a status bit in one of the response packets that controllers use to signal
this ability.
John Wilson
D Bit