From: philo@privacy.net   
      
   I have a drive with a few bad sectors that I have no intention of using   
   for anything important. I'm always testing operating systems and often   
   will load and delete several a day...so this drive would be fine for that.   
      
   I zeroed it out using "dd" but before I did so, I looked at all the   
   options in hdparm .   
      
   One option was to deliberately create a bad sector.   
      
   I imagine this is for some type of testing purposes..   
      
   Just curious as to why someone would want to do that.   
      
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