On Sunday 14 March 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Going back to your original report: > > On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:39 +0000, David Goodenough wrote: > [...] > > > Previous kernels (at least 2.6.26 which I used to run on this machine > > with Debian) did not seem to notice the HPA, so either I need a way to > > turn off the kernel's detection of the HPA or I need > > CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL enabled to enable hdparm -N to work. > > Now I don't understand this. Once an HPA has been created, it will be > hidden by the drive unless the kernel or BIOS specifically overrides > this. It does not depend on the kernel to detect and implement the HPA. > > Is it possible that you have changed or reset a BIOS option that was > overriding the HPA? > > Ben. >
Another question arises, *parted still think that the device is full size so obviously the drive is not hiding the HPA very well! David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003151002.05181.david.goodeno...@linkchoose.co.uk
