> If I want to upgrade my IDE Hard drive by my self, how can I
> restore that kind of data on other diferent PC?
So the content of the HPA should be limited to program which are
special: a boot loader is position dependant and you do not want
to copy it blindly to another hard disk with maybe
>> Note that this HPA is a good place to store a bootloader too, in fact
>> I like to think of it as the big floppy drive of the PC which no more
>> have any floppy drive: create a FAT filesystem of 64 Mbytes there and
>> copy all the floppy you used to have there. Your bootloader, if it
>> is
Note that this HPA is a good place to store a bootloader too, in fact
I like to think of it as the big floppy drive of the PC which no more
have any floppy drive: create a FAT filesystem of 64 Mbytes there and
copy all the floppy you used to have there. Your bootloader, if it
is good enough,
If I want to upgrade my IDE Hard drive by my self, how can I
restore that kind of data on other diferent PC?
So the content of the HPA should be limited to program which are
special: a boot loader is position dependant and you do not want
to copy it blindly to another hard disk with maybe
El Jueves, 4 de Agosto de 2005 07:11, Etienne Lorrain escribió:
> > > > 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
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>
>> > > My question is now: why is an
> > > 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
On Iau, 2005-08-04 at 09:14 +0200, Oliver Tennert wrote:
> partitioning and filesystems. The point is, IF there is an HPA, there MIGHT
> be a partitioning scheme and some filesystems on the disk which rely on the
> size of disk being the native size MINUS the HPA.
Thats fine, Linux is quite
On Friday, 22. July 2005 16:47, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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,
On Friday, 22. July 2005 16:47, Alan Cox wrote:
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
On Iau, 2005-08-04 at 09:14 +0200, Oliver Tennert wrote:
partitioning and filesystems. The point is, IF there is an HPA, there MIGHT
be a partitioning scheme and some filesystems on the disk which rely on the
size of disk being the native size MINUS the HPA.
Thats fine, Linux is quite happy
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.
But
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Etienne Lorrain
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Subject: Re: IDE disk and HPA
My question is now: why is an HPA disabled i.e. disprotected when
detected? Why
El Jueves, 4 de Agosto de 2005 07:11, Etienne Lorrain escribió:
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
> 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
>
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
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