From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: avl@logic.at
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hpa-problem in ide-disk.c - new insights.
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:30:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061127133044.28b8b4ed@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061127130953.GA2352@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:09:53 +0100
Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> wrote:
> It appears, as if the drive is really approaching breakdown,
> remapping bad sectors and is out of spare sectors. Thus
HPA has nothign to do with sector remapping. HPA simply allows the BIOS
(or disk by jumper option) to hide part of the drive early in boot so
that it doesn't confuse/break old OS/BIOS code, or to use it to hide
things like windows reinstall images.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-27 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-20 14:51 possible bug in ide-disk.c (2.6.18.2 but also older) Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-20 15:25 ` Alan
2006-11-20 16:56 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-20 17:28 ` Alan
2006-11-20 17:57 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-20 18:12 ` Alan
2006-11-21 11:51 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-21 12:06 ` Alan
2006-11-22 10:57 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-23 17:05 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-27 13:09 ` hpa-problem in ide-disk.c - new insights Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-27 13:30 ` Alan [this message]
2006-11-27 16:01 ` Allow turning off hpa-checking Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-27 16:33 ` Alan
2006-11-27 17:56 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-27 18:10 ` Alan
2006-11-27 18:29 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-27 19:59 ` Alan
2006-11-28 9:29 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-28 9:46 ` Tejun Heo
2006-11-28 12:09 ` Andreas Leitgeb
2006-11-28 12:24 ` Tejun Heo
2006-12-14 14:45 ` Andreas Leitgeb
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