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From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] /crp
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 10:40:37 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181107234037.GA3826@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2PkKf06Loh3_B_ze+qYt82qmYwfEWL7KOjxd98442QNkw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wednesday,  7 November 2018 at 10:14:20 -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 9:09 AM <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
>
>> The DEC drivers just left off the last 72 sectors.   There was no
>> provision using them for block replacement.
>
> Minor update -- *no dynamic replacement provision*.  There was a
> standard alone utility called BAD144 that implemented DEC Standard
> 144 (Bad Blocks).

Yes, this was also present in early FreeBSD distributions.  I have a
vague recollection that people warned against using it.

Greg
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-08  2:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-06 17:09 Angelo Papenhoff
2018-11-06 19:22 ` ron
2018-11-06 19:25 ` ron
2018-11-06 21:51   ` Dave Horsfall
2018-11-07 12:18     ` ron
2018-11-07 15:14       ` Clem Cole
2018-11-07 23:40         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2018-11-08  3:04           ` Warner Losh
2018-11-07 16:43     ` Paul Winalski
2018-11-08 16:55   ` Mary Ann Horton
2018-11-09  5:30     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-11-06 23:31 Norman Wilson
2018-11-07 15:08 ` Clem Cole
2018-11-07 23:30   ` Rob Pike

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