linux-kernel - Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:06:44 -0500
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
To:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
Cc:	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: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

On Monday 28 January 2008, 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
>
>Cheers

That's ok, dd seemed to do the job also.

Thanks Mark.

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