> On May 31, 2026, at 10:21 AM, Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Means moving a drive physically from a DEC system to a Sun VME system > would have lost the bad block table, right? I remember seeing exactly > that done a few times with CDC drives that went from VAXen with Emulex > controllers to Sun replacements which I expect had Xylogics controllers. > I guess to do this safely must have required a low-level reformat by > something that wrote the bad144 data in the expected byte order.
Thinking about this a little more.. “Of course.” Because it’s not like UFS could handle either byte-order back then, either. -- thorpej
