From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263660AbTJ0Xbi (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:31:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263765AbTJ0Xbi (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:31:38 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:49836 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263660AbTJ0Xbh (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:31:37 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jason Lunz Subject: Re: Blockbusting news, results get worse Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 23:31:33 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PBR Streetgang Message-ID: References: <785F348679A4D5119A0C009027DE33C105CDB39B@mcoexc04.mlm.maxtor.com> <3cba01c39c6f$141529a0$24ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp said: > Yeah, I need to deliberately damage one block in order to test the > firmware, but I don't want to damage multiple blocks and use up the > reallocation space. I am a home user, even if I also do programming > at work, even if I also volunteer one day each weekend to test Linux. > How can I arrange to damage one block on a disk? I have two ata100 drives sitting at home right now that fill dmesg with lots of UnrecoverableErrors whenever you access certain sectors. I'll ship them to anyone who will use them to make linux error recovery more resilient, either at the ide driver level or in the filesystem. any takers? Jason