Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765930AbYA2QQu (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:16:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765703AbYA2QQ3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:16:29 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:3454 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765692AbYA2QQ1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:16:27 -0500 Message-ID: <479F5159.60505@rtr.ca> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:16:25 -0500 From: Mark Lord Organization: Real-Time Remedies Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Freemyer Cc: Mark Lord , Philipp Thomas , Gene Heskett , Mikael Pettersson , Peter Zijlstra , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux ide Mailing list Subject: Re: Make_bad_sector References: <87f94c370801290739t39640bf5w960576ae4b273156@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87f94c370801290739t39640bf5w960576ae4b273156@mail.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: 1225 Lines: 37 Greg Freemyer wrote: > 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. .. Shoot! You are correct, dagnabbit. I'll have to put out a new release soonish, then. Cheers -- 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/