Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

From: Gene Heskett
Date: Mon Jan 28 2008 - 19:07:42 EST


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.

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