From: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>
To: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
foo saa <foosaa@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Linux kernel - Libata bad block error handling to user mode program
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:29:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87f94c371003111029s7c7daebgf691ab11e6bdda25@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B8FC6AC.4060801@teksavvy.com>
>
> But really.. isn't "hdparm --security-erase NULL /dev/sdX" good enough ???
>
This thread seems to have died off. If there is a real problem, I
hope it picks back up.
Mark, as to your question the few times I've tried that the bios on
the test machine blocked the command. So it may have some specific
utility, but it's a not a generic solution in my mind.
Greg
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-03-04 6:42 ` Linux kernel - Libata bad block error handling to user mode program Andrew Morton
2010-03-04 12:58 ` foo saa
2010-03-04 16:31 ` Mike Hayward
2010-03-04 18:12 ` s ponnusa
2010-03-05 0:42 ` Mike Hayward
2010-03-05 2:23 ` s ponnusa
2010-03-05 16:31 ` Mike Hayward
2010-03-05 6:01 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-03-05 13:04 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-04 16:37 ` Mike Hayward
2010-03-04 18:23 ` s ponnusa
2010-03-04 14:17 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-03-04 14:41 ` Mark Lord
2010-03-04 15:33 ` foo saa
2010-03-04 17:49 ` Mark Lord
2010-03-04 18:20 ` s ponnusa
2010-03-04 19:41 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-03-04 19:50 ` s ponnusa
2010-03-05 1:58 ` Robert Hancock
2010-03-05 2:11 ` s ponnusa
2010-03-05 2:16 ` Robert Hancock
2010-03-05 2:17 ` s ponnusa
2010-03-05 12:03 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-05 22:27 ` s ponnusa
2010-03-11 18:29 ` Greg Freemyer [this message]
2010-03-13 22:44 ` s ponnusa
2010-03-13 23:44 ` Robert Hancock
2010-03-14 0:12 ` s ponnusa
2010-03-14 5:06 ` Robert Hancock
2010-03-14 16:02 ` Mark Lord
2010-03-14 16:12 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-03-04 18:40 Kalra Ashish-B00888
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2010-03-04 18:41 Kalra Ashish-B00888
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