From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758194AbWK0NYm (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:24:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758196AbWK0NYm (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:24:42 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:10424 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758194AbWK0NYm (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:24:42 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:30:44 +0000 From: Alan To: avl@logic.at Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: hpa-problem in ide-disk.c - new insights. Message-ID: <20061127133044.28b8b4ed@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20061127130953.GA2352@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> References: <20061120145148.GQ6851@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20061120152505.5d0ba6c5@localhost.localdomain> <20061120165601.GS6851@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20061120172812.64837a0a@localhost.localdomain> <20061121115117.GU6851@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20061121120614.06073ce8@localhost.localdomain> <20061122105735.GV6851@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20061123170557.GY6851@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20061127130953.GA2352@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:09:53 +0100 Andreas Leitgeb 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