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

[Hans Rosenfeld <hans%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 06:48:34PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> In my experience, DEC removable disk packs actually need this functionality,
> and the only ones of those that were common enough that anyone is likely to
> want to read them these days were the RL02 drives and packs and maybe
> the RK07.

Don't forget that we have a driver (hdc/rd) for the MFM disks (RD54
etc.) on the MicroVAX 2000 / VAXstation 2000. These are _not_ MSCP
disks, and one of the reason why I never succeeded in getting NetBSD
1.5.2 to run on mine 25 years ago was that the driver lacked bad sector
handling :)


Hans


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