From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752197Ab0IXFCZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:02:25 -0400 Received: from smtp.infotech.no ([82.134.31.41]:43801 "EHLO smtp.infotech.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750854Ab0IXFCY (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:02:24 -0400 Message-ID: <4C9C30D9.8090302@interlog.com> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:02:17 -0400 From: Douglas Gilbert Reply-To: dgilbert@interlog.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stan Hoeppner CC: Kyle McMartin , Mark Lord , Linux Kernel , IDE/ATA development list , linux-scsi Subject: Re: "blocked for more than 120 secs" --> a valid situation, how to prevent? References: <4C9BE5A8.1090002@teksavvy.com> <4C9BF624.7090906@hardwarefreak.com> <20100924013748.GH13116@bombadil.infradead.org> <4C9C1F95.5000509@hardwarefreak.com> In-Reply-To: <4C9C1F95.5000509@hardwarefreak.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10-09-23 11:48 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Kyle McMartin put forth on 9/23/2010 8:37 PM: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 07:51:48PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> ~$ man hdparm >>> >> >> kyle@dreadnought ~ $ hdparm >> hdparm - get/set hard disk parameters - version v9.27, by Mark Lord. >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> [...] > > Please pardon me while I wipe this egg off my face. :) > > My apologies Mark. Please feel free to publicly flog me if you wish. I wonder if Mark every watched a program called Sledge Hammer! whose signature line was "Trust me. I know what I'm doing." Recently I needed to plead with hdparm to corrupt a sector as follows: # hdparm --make-bad-sector 976770000 --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing /dev/sdb Doug Gilbert