On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:49:35 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Matthew Garrett wrote: >> On boot, Linux will attempt to disable the host protected area on a >> disk. After a suspend/resume cycle, the BIOS may reenable it (seen on a ... > This has come up several times now. One thing I'm curious about is >why we are disabling HPA on boot without consent from the user. AFAIK, >HPA is mostly used to implement hidden recovery/suspend storage areas >and disabling automatically on boot increases the likeliness of >destroying them. What do we gain by disabling HPA on boot? It simply implies one _must_not_ use linux-kernel 2.6 to prepare IDE drives, stay with 2.4 series for drive preparation until the bug is fixed. I'd noticed the issue but ignored it as I still setup systems with 2.4 prior to installing 2.6. --Grant. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
