Re: hpa-problem in ide-disk.c - new insights.

2006-11-27 Thread Alan
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:09:53 +0100 Andreas Leitgeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

hpa-problem in ide-disk.c - new insights.

2006-11-27 Thread Andreas Leitgeb
It appears, as if the drive is really approaching breakdown, remapping bad sectors and is out of spare sectors. Thus reducing capacity. The call to determine the native sectors seems to still count in those remapped sectors, yielding an effectively bogus number. Perhaps the drive had

hpa-problem in ide-disk.c - new insights.

2006-11-27 Thread Andreas Leitgeb
It appears, as if the drive is really approaching breakdown, remapping bad sectors and is out of spare sectors. Thus reducing capacity. The call to determine the native sectors seems to still count in those remapped sectors, yielding an effectively bogus number. Perhaps the drive had

Re: hpa-problem in ide-disk.c - new insights.

2006-11-27 Thread Alan
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:09:53 +0100 Andreas Leitgeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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)