From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>, Philipp Thomas <pth@suse.de>,
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>,
Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux ide Mailing list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Make_bad_sector
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:16:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <479F5159.60505@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87f94c370801290739t39640bf5w960576ae4b273156@mail.gmail.com>
Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2008 3:43 PM, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
>> 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
>>
> Mark,
>
> I asked on the SUSE list and was informed by Philipp Thomas of Novell
> (cc'ed) that the only mention of make_bad_sector in the hdparm-7.7
> source is in a todo list.
>
> Sounds like a useful tool, so I was hoping to encourage suse to
> include it with future releases.
..
Shoot! You are correct, dagnabbit.
I'll have to put out a new release soonish, then.
Cheers
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2008-01-29 15:39 Make_bad_sector Greg Freemyer
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