Modern hard drives can have an HPA(host protected access partition) placed
on them; this partition is not accessible in an ordinary way. I have an old
80 gig drive with 74 megabytes of space wasted on this.
When the drive is internally connected to a computer, y6ou can use the
linux function 'hdparm' to remove the HPA,based on the numbers shown by
hdparm. However,when attempting to use the hdparm
with the drive connected externally through a ide to USB adapter, I get a
message "bad or missing sense data" with no useful information.
Furthermore, I have gotten the same message with flash drives and
sd cards, making it impossible to remove the HPA they all seem to have
today.
The cherry on it is that I thought to slap the drive in an old ide type
machine to hit it with hdparm, but the machine is nonfunctional; my other
machine is sata only.
Any ideas on this problem out there?.
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