From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Oliver Tennert <O.Tennert@science-computing.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE disk and HPA
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:41:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1123155687.6278.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508040914.10810.tennert@science-computing.de>
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 with such a partitioning table.
> Also there might be some contents in the HPA which is vulnerable to deletion
> if exposed to the OS in such a transparent way.
By opening the raw disk file yes, but that is not a big concern
> Why is the HPA not just left alone?
As I said before - because in most cases the HPA is used just to fool an
old bios into booting a large disk.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-04 11:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-22 12:17 IDE disk and HPA Oliver Tennert
2005-07-22 14:47 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-04 7:14 ` Oliver Tennert
2005-08-04 11:41 ` Alan Cox [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-04 12:11 Etienne Lorrain
2005-08-04 21:45 ` Gustavo Guillermo Pérez
2005-08-05 10:15 ` Etienne Lorrain
2005-08-04 17:15 Aleksey Gorelov
2005-08-05 9:50 ` Etienne Lorrain
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