linux-kernel - Re: Linux kernel - Libata bad block error handling to user mode program

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Message-ID: <87f94c371003111029s7c7daebgf691ab11e6bdda25@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:29:43 -0500
From:	Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@...il.com>
To:	Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	foo saa <foosaa@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: Linux kernel - Libata bad block error handling to user mode 
	program

>
> But really.. isn't "hdparm --security-erase NULL /dev/sdX" good enough ???
>

This thread seems to have died off.  If there is a real problem, I
hope it picks back up.

Mark, as to your question the few times I've tried that the bios on
the test machine blocked the command.  So it may have some specific
utility, but it's a not a generic solution in my mind.

Greg
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