From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: Make_bad_sector Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:16:25 -0500 Message-ID: <479F5159.60505@rtr.ca> References: <87f94c370801290739t39640bf5w960576ae4b273156@mail.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]:3454 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765692AbYA2QQ1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:16:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87f94c370801290739t39640bf5w960576ae4b273156@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Greg Freemyer Cc: Mark Lord , Philipp Thomas , Gene Heskett , Mikael Pettersson , Peter Zijlstra , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux ide Mailing list Greg Freemyer wrote: > On Jan 28, 2008 3:43 PM, 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 >> > 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