linux-kernel - Re: Make_bad

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:16:25 -0500
From:	Mark Lord <liml@....ca>
To:	Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@...il.com>
Cc:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>, Philipp Thomas <pth@...e.de>,
	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>,
	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux ide Mailing list <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Make_bad_sector

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2008 3:43 PM, Mark Lord <lkml@....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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