From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:43:38 -0500 Message-ID: <479E3E7A.7000308@rtr.ca> References: <200801272122.21823.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <200801281156.28844.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <479E1CF4.7060706@rtr.ca> <200801281359.24050.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:4938 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755226AbYA1Unk (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:43:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200801281359.24050.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Gene Heskett Cc: Mikael Pettersson , Peter Zijlstra , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux ide Mailing list Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 28 January 2008, Mark Lord wrote: >.. >> Another way is to use the "make_bad_sector" utility that >> is included in the source tarball for hdparm-7.7, as follows: >> >> make_bad_sector --readback /dev/sda 474507 >> > Apparently not in the rpm, darnit. .. That's okay. It should still be in the SRPM source file. And it's a tiny download from sourceforge.net: http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&type_of_search=soft&words=hdparm Cheers