Yes, you're right and HPA disabled in firmware is useful as long as you don't move the HDD to another machine, but I supposed that as long as you stay things the same, this solution is far simpler than messing up with libata.
Just my 2 cents. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Phillip Susi <ps...@cfl.rr.com> wrote: > On 4/7/2010 12:14 PM, EagleDM wrote: > > I do not agree. > > > > If you use the program HDAT2, boot from that and DISABLE HPA, the > > program will disable it on the Firmware Level. > > > > At least in my case, with a Velociraptor RAID0 Array, both HPA's on both > > disks were permanently disabled, I no longer have problems with Ubuntu > > since I disabled it. > > Yes, and what does HDAT2 have to do with libata? It has an option to > make the change permanent, libata does not. > > -- > Do NOT disable HPA by default -> leads to data loss > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380138 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Do NOT disable HPA by default -> leads to data loss https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380138 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
