Re: Make_bad_sector

[Mark Lord]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> 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.
..

Shoot!  You are correct, dagnabbit.
I'll have to put out a new release soonish, then.

Cheers
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/