Re: bad144 - how useful still? Because it's annoyingly ubiquitous.
Anders Magnusson <[email protected]> Thu, 28 May 2026 07:47:17 +0200
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Den 2026-05-28 kl. 00:48, skrev Thor Lancelot Simon: > > It looks like we have our own RL driver that didn't come from historical > BSD, and unless I'm misreading, it doesn't handle remapped sectors on read. > The other removable pack drives BSD traditionally supported on the VAX were > the RK07 (we have no 'hk' driver), and various RM and RP series drives, > as well as the CDC 97xx drives, all of which used the 'hp' massbus disk > driver with various controllers. We also seem to presently have no 'hp' > drivfer. > The original code was not released, so I wrote new versions (that I did not spend time to add bad144 to). And yes, we have driver for Massbus disks, I used RP06 when I originally wrote NetBSD/vax. See sys/arch/vax/mba/ -- A