a...@inbox.ru (Aleksej Saushev) writes:
>Matt Thomas writes:
>> On Aug 11, 2013, at 9:37 PM, Mouse wrote:
>>
[...], I wonder if you could attach the HPA area as an additional
partition on the default disklabel, or, if the disk is gpt
partitioned, fake up another partition in the
Matt Thomas writes:
> On Aug 11, 2013, at 9:37 PM, Mouse wrote:
>
>>> [...], I wonder if you could attach the HPA area as an additional
>>> partition on the default disklabel, or, if the disk is gpt
>>> partitioned, fake up another partition in the gpt table.
>>
>> I don't see any reason why no
>> Yes and yes. It simply removes the protection, letting the host see
>> the HPA as what it really is: more space appended to the space
>> advertised to HPA-unaware software.
> I don't really like silently appending the host protected area to the
> unprotected part of the disk. Exposing somethi
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Mouse wrote:
What does your support do? Does it let you write over the host
protected area? Does it let you extract what's in there?
Yes and yes. It simply removes the protection, letting the host see
the HPA as what it really is: more space appended to the space
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