On 03/04/10 10:33, foo saa wrote: ..
hdparm is good, but I don't want to use the internal ATA SECURE ERASE because I can never get the amount of bad sectors the drive had.
.. Oh.. but isn't that information in the S.M.A.R.T. data ?? You'll not find the bad sectors by writing -- a true WRITE nearly never reports a media error. Instead, the drive simply remaps to a good sector on the fly and returns success. Generally, only READs report media errors. Cheers -- 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
