From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Oliver Tennert <O.Tennert@science-computing.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE disk and HPA
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:47:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1122043638.9478.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200507221417.04640.tennert@science-computing.de>
> Do I interpret it right that the following is done in the above function:
Aside from the version in most kernels being buggy yes
> My question is now: why is an HPA disabled i.e. disprotected when detected?
> Why not let the HPA alone, because a certain set of disk sectors shall not be
> accessible by the OS?
Because the HPA is most commonly used to hide all but a fraction of a
disk to work with older BIOSes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-22 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-22 12:17 Oliver Tennert
2005-07-22 14:47 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-08-04 7:14 ` Oliver Tennert
2005-08-04 11:41 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-04 12:11 Etienne Lorrain
2005-08-04 21:45 ` Gustavo Guillermo Pérez
2005-08-05 10:15 ` Etienne Lorrain
2005-08-04 17:15 Aleksey Gorelov
2005-08-05 9:50 ` Etienne Lorrain
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