From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 497DB6B00EB for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:29:45 -0500 (EST) Received: by iwn1 with SMTP id 1so343803iwn.22 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:29:43 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4B8FC6AC.4060801@teksavvy.com> References: <20100303224245.ae8d1f7a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <87f94c371003040617t4a4fcd0dt1c9fc0f50e6002c4@mail.gmail.com> <4B8FC6AC.4060801@teksavvy.com> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:29:43 -0500 Message-ID: <87f94c371003111029s7c7daebgf691ab11e6bdda25@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Linux kernel - Libata bad block error handling to user mode program From: Greg Freemyer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Andrew Morton , foo saa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > > 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org