Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763968AbYA2Pjs (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:39:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758133AbYA2PjZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:39:25 -0500 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.247]:49872 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757160AbYA2PjX (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:39:23 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=QCpj+SQj0VXRENBbfgcv6PqdFg3L++kgwjJzppA1h3IyEhHfbDB8dLitxwuaOBtzuIMiyMs9xwIUtL1aUEh7wOQODw3ddMMydldgQ6xW58vqQZSPyn4pHy+tpcYskYdCo73QXWXp8CHaiSSAkbkLiT/YaTMwlhPt3YPV8bzoxcw= Message-ID: <87f94c370801290739t39640bf5w960576ae4b273156@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:39:21 -0500 From: "Greg Freemyer" To: "Mark Lord" , "Philipp Thomas" Subject: Make_bad_sector Cc: "Gene Heskett" , "Mikael Pettersson" , "Peter Zijlstra" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "Linux ide Mailing list" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1393 Lines: 43 On Jan 28, 2008 3:43 PM, 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 > Mark, I asked on the SUSE list and was informed by Philipp Thomas of Novell (cc'ed) that the only mention of make_bad_sector in the hdparm-7.7 source is in a todo list. Sounds like a useful tool, so I was hoping to encourage suse to include it with future releases. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- 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/