On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Ronny Svedman wrote:

> I have also formatted rd53:s and 54:s that had bad blocks, and got them
> working under netbsd in a MVII. If i have understood the situation
> correctly, the badblock management at this level is handled by the
> intelligent drive interface, rather than the operating system, and that
> the OS only has to deal with blocks that go bad AFTER the last drive
> formatting..
> 
> Am i right or just lucky that i haven't happened to use any of the bad
> blocks yet?
> 
	AFAIK the uVaxII MSCP controllers handle badblocks in hardware -
	its the VS2000 that needs software support (lacking in NetBSD).

	(But I could be wrong :)

	David/abs