Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758217AbYA2DQT (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:16:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755010AbYA2DQE (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:16:04 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:4369 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754448AbYA2DQD (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:16:03 -0500 Message-ID: <479E9A70.6090108@rtr.ca> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:16:00 -0500 From: Mark Lord Organization: Real-Time Remedies Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gene Heskett Cc: Mark Lord , Mikael Pettersson , Peter Zijlstra , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux ide Mailing list Subject: Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24 References: <200801272122.21823.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <200801281359.24050.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <479E3E7A.7000308@rtr.ca> <200801281906.44892.gene.heskett@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200801281906.44892.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 582 Lines: 18 Gene Heskett wrote: .. > That's ok, dd seemed to do the job also. .. The two programs operate entirely differently from each other, so it may still be worth trying the make_bad_sector utility there. dd goes through the regular kernel I/O calls, whereas make_bad_sector sends raw ATA commands directly (more or less) to the drive. -ml -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/