Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:06:44 -0500
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24
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To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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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.

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