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. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -- Henry Spencer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
