Gene Heskett wrote: ..
That's ok, dd seemed to do the job also.
.. The two programs operate entirely differently from each other, so it may still be worth trying the make_bad_sector utility there. dd goes through the regular kernel I/O calls, whereas make_bad_sector sends raw ATA commands directly (more or less) to the drive. -ml - 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