Hamish Mcintyre-Bhatty

Hi there, I've recently been trying to use this to make an up to date tutorial for setting these adaptors up on Raspbian (https://www.hamishmb.com/blog/how-to-make-a-raspi-ap-with-a-rtl8xxx-wifi-adaptor/) but I get a kernel panic...

Hmm, yeah I did see that it was deprecated. Realtek have a lot to answer for, it seems Linux drivers are problematic with a lot of their stuff. The mainline...

I hadn't heard of the rtl8xxxu one, that might be worth a look

Perhaps also worth mentioning is that it probably shouldn't be assumed that disks have 512-byte sectors any more, a lot of them use 4k sectors now.

Okay, that seems fair enough. At any rate, it'd be good to keep badblocks around in its current form even if it doesn't change. I have a use case for...

Seems like a good feature. Can we get this added? On my 8TB drive, it takes about a week to finish the non-destructive read-write test.

Confirmed fixed in current git version.

Actually no, I was wrong: under Memory Usage, everything is still reported as KiB.

What is this inconsistent with? KDE?

Thanks for clarifying :)