On Jan 28, 2008 3:43 PM, Mark Lord <lkml@xxxxxx> 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. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com - 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
