From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:06:44 -0500 Message-ID: <200801281906.44892.gene.heskett@gmail.com> References: <200801272122.21823.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <200801281359.24050.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <479E3E7A.7000308@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from vms044pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.44]:54815 "EHLO vms044pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755364AbYA2AGt (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:06:49 -0500 In-reply-to: <479E3E7A.7000308@rtr.ca> Content-disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Mikael Pettersson , Peter Zijlstra , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux ide Mailing list On Monday 28 January 2008, Mark Lord 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 > >Cheers That's ok, dd seemed to do the job also. Thanks Mark. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -- Henry Spencer