Messages in this thread | | | From | "Mudama, Eric" <> | Subject | RE: Blockbusting news, results get worse | Date | Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:43:07 -0700 |
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> -----Original Message----- > 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?
Um... you can do that by shorting various pins on the PCBA if you have access to an oscilloscope, or put it under heavy write workload and remove power.
A modern drive has many thousands of reassign sectors available, so I don't think either of these events will cause a permanent issue.
I'd also suggest reading older ATA specs, since some vendors still support older commands that were capable of various wierdness that might be useful.
--eric
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