Re: bad144 - how useful still? Because it's annoyingly ubiquitous.

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Subject: Re: bad144 - how useful still? Because it's annoyingly ubiquitous.
From: Hans Rosenfeld <hans%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 14:15:17 +0200

On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 08:00:51AM -0400, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> I figure there are a handful of legit use cases for bad144 in NetBSD still:
> 
> - The vax port, obviously, but only with the really old drives.  (VAX
> peeps please help me out here - is bad144 useful drives behind an
> MSCP-compliant controller?)

No. But we do support a number of drive and controller types on VAX
where this utility would still be useful.


Hans


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