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

Anders Magnusson <[email protected]> Thu, 28 May 2026 07:47:17 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel
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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/

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