Gene Heskett wrote:
..
That's ok, dd seemed to do the job also.
..

The two programs operate entirely differently from each other,
so it may still be worth trying the make_bad_sector utility there.

dd goes through the regular kernel I/O calls,
whereas make_bad_sector sends raw ATA commands
directly (more or less) to the drive.

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