From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>,
David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
albertcc@tw.ibm.com, axboe@suse.de,
smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: LibPATA code issues / 2.6.16 (previously, 2.6.15.x)
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:46:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <444960CC.2000009@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604211226120.3701@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> You can force the disk to replace the bad sectors by doing a disk-level write:
>>
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=4k
>
> NOTE! Obviously don't do this before you've backed up the disk. Depending
> on the filesystem, you might just have overwritten something important, or
> just your pr0n collection ;)
>
> Jeff, please be a little more careful about telling people commands like
> that. Some people might cut-and-paste the command without realizing what
> it's doing as a way to "fix" their problem.
Agreed, though the original poster had already done a 400GB dd from
/dev/zero...
Jeff
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>,
David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
albertcc@tw.ibm.com, axboe@suse.de,
smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: LibPATA code issues / 2.6.16 (previously, 2.6.15.x)
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:46:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <444960CC.2000009@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604211226120.3701@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> You can force the disk to replace the bad sectors by doing a disk-level write:
>>
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=4k
>
> NOTE! Obviously don't do this before you've backed up the disk. Depending
> on the filesystem, you might just have overwritten something important, or
> just your pr0n collection ;)
>
> Jeff, please be a little more careful about telling people commands like
> that. Some people might cut-and-paste the command without realizing what
> it's doing as a way to "fix" their problem.
Agreed, though the original poster had already done a 400GB dd from
/dev/zero...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-21 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 151+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-14 9:48 LibPATA code issues / 2.6.15.4 Justin Piszcz
2006-02-14 14:50 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-14 16:27 ` David Greaves
2006-02-14 17:12 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-02-14 18:00 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-14 18:06 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-02-23 23:39 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-02-25 15:32 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-25 15:58 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-02-25 16:11 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-25 16:21 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-25 11:34 ` David Greaves
2006-02-25 16:20 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-25 17:45 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-02-25 18:28 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-25 18:55 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-02-25 19:29 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-02-25 19:53 ` David Greaves
2006-02-25 19:47 ` David Greaves
2006-02-26 2:27 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-26 9:56 ` David Greaves
2006-02-26 14:04 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-27 21:34 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-28 1:33 ` Tejun Heo
2006-02-28 1:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-28 2:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-28 2:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-28 2:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-28 3:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-28 4:11 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-28 10:30 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-28 8:03 ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-28 4:16 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-28 10:32 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-28 10:30 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-02-28 10:39 ` David Greaves
2006-02-28 14:37 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-28 21:04 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-03-08 2:57 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-08 3:18 ` Dave Jones
2006-03-08 3:23 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-08 15:37 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-03-08 15:37 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-02-28 14:38 ` Mark Lord
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602280939280.16541@p34>
2006-02-28 14:49 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-28 15:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-28 15:26 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-28 15:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-01 0:46 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-01 6:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-28 15:16 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-01 17:33 ` David Greaves
2006-03-01 18:37 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-01 20:12 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-08 16:46 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-28 15:31 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-28 15:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-28 16:57 ` Eric D. Mudama
2006-03-01 1:04 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-01 11:37 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-03-01 13:17 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-03-01 17:41 ` David Greaves
2006-03-01 17:46 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-01 18:12 ` David Greaves
2006-03-01 18:30 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-01 18:32 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-03-01 18:33 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-03-01 18:48 ` David Greaves
2006-03-01 19:49 ` David Greaves
2006-03-03 19:38 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-03-03 22:46 ` David Greaves
2006-03-04 14:25 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-06 6:13 ` David Greaves
2006-03-21 18:11 ` David Greaves
2006-03-22 15:23 ` David Greaves
2006-03-05 11:43 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-03-05 12:41 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-03-05 22:58 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-05 23:00 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-05 23:19 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-03-05 23:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-04-21 19:14 ` LibPATA code issues / 2.6.16 (previously, 2.6.15.x) Justin Piszcz
2006-04-21 19:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-04-21 19:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-04-21 19:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-21 22:46 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-04-21 22:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-04-22 0:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-06 15:09 ` [smartmontools-support]Re: " Leon Woestenberg
2006-05-07 12:44 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-06-11 11:13 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-04-22 16:39 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-03-01 19:06 ` LibPATA code issues / 2.6.15.4 Justin Piszcz
2006-03-01 19:28 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-01 19:35 ` Mark Lord
2006-03-01 19:38 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-03-01 19:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-26 12:27 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-02-26 12:55 ` David Greaves
2006-02-26 13:56 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-26 14:30 ` Kernel SeekCompleteErrors... Different from " James Courtier-Dutton
2006-02-26 17:03 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-26 17:13 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2006-02-26 17:43 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-26 20:36 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-27 11:48 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-27 13:40 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-14 23:58 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-02-17 8:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-17 14:59 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-17 15:00 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-02-18 20:43 ` Sander
2006-02-18 21:42 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-18 21:51 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-02-19 7:14 ` Sander
2006-02-19 15:30 ` Mark Lord
2006-02-19 17:16 ` Sander
2006-07-06 23:08 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-07-07 13:08 ` Mark Lord
2006-07-07 13:24 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-07-07 13:43 ` Mark Lord
2006-07-07 13:48 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-07-07 14:01 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-07-07 14:35 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-07-07 18:53 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-07-07 19:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-07-07 19:28 ` Justin Piszcz
[not found] ` <200607091224.31451.liml@rtr.ca>
2006-07-09 17:27 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-07-09 20:16 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-07-09 20:40 ` LibPATA code issues / 2.6.15.4 (found the opcode=0x35)! Justin Piszcz
2006-07-09 20:46 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-07-09 21:05 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-07-09 22:03 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-07-10 13:59 ` Follow up? " Justin Piszcz
2006-07-10 15:33 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-10 15:45 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-07-11 13:28 ` LibPATA code issues / 2.6.17.3 (What is the next step?) Justin Piszcz
2006-07-11 16:12 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-12 22:10 ` David Greaves
2006-07-12 22:29 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-07-14 15:33 ` David Greaves
2006-07-13 10:55 ` Erik Mouw
2006-07-14 17:16 ` Mark Lord
2006-07-14 17:18 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-07-14 17:39 ` Mark Lord
2006-07-14 18:18 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-07-14 20:02 ` Mark Lord
2006-07-14 17:14 ` Follow up? LibPATA code issues / 2.6.15.4 (found the opcode=0x35)! Mark Lord
2006-07-14 17:17 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-07-14 17:37 ` Mark Lord
2006-07-14 18:17 ` Justin Piszcz
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