> On May 31, 2026, at 10:10 AM, Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 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>).
…and it certainly appears that the SunOS 3 “xy” driver uses it, including with big-endian fields, heh. -- thorpej
