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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:16:25 -0500
From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
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To: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>, Philipp Thomas <pth@suse.de>,
       Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: Make_bad_sector
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Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2008 3:43 PM, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> 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
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