> On May 31, 2026, at 7:07 AM, Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > > The underlying hardware's often the same (CDC made the guts of plenty of > DEC drives), SMD drives internally have no facility for sparing out sectors, > and I wonder whether Sun did in fact do it. However, I just Googled around > for SunOS 3 source code and I see no evidence of a bad144 utility, though > I did not dig through the kernel looking for driver support.
SunOS 3 certainly had a flag for "use DEC std 144" in the dk_info structure (<sun/dkio.h>). -- thorpej
