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

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On May 31, 2026, at 10:21 AM, Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Means moving a drive physically from a DEC system to a Sun VME system
> would have lost the bad block table, right?  I remember seeing exactly
> that done a few times with CDC drives that went from VAXen with Emulex
> controllers to Sun replacements which I expect had Xylogics controllers.
> I guess to do this safely must have required a low-level reformat by
> something that wrote the bad144 data in the expected byte order.

Thinking about this a little more..

“Of course.”

Because it’s not like UFS could handle either byte-order back then, either.

-- thorpej