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

> On May 27, 2026, at 6:48 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I would say this agitates for simple removal of the STD 144 code, in
> kernel (what drivers actually use it?) and userspace.

Currently, the “wd” driver supports bad144 (because ST506 and the like), as well as the Xylogics SMD drivers (“xd” and “xy”).  Like I said, there’s been some cargo-culting of the consumption of the table in disk drivers where it would have never served any real purpose.  I don’t suppose there are a lot of people using Fujitsu Super Eagles with their Sun3/260s these days, but I have no reason to doubt that the drivers for those controllers still work.  (Maybe one day I’ll add emulation of them to TME.)

-- thorpej