From: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
"Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] partitions/ide: improve Host Protected Area handling
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 00:50:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090531225030.GB27422@ub> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905312204.12549.elendil@planet.nl>
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:04:11PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> I conclude the following from reading the patches:
> - a HPA is always at the end of a disk, correct?
I recall from the days of PARTIES and BEER the description
of the Address Offset Mode. If that is enabled, LBA 0 points
at the start of the Host Protected Area.
Andries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-31 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-31 14:39 [PATCH 0/4] partitions/ide: improve Host Protected Area handling Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-05-31 14:39 ` [PATCH 1/4] partitions: warn about the partition exceeding device capacity Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-05-31 14:39 ` [PATCH 2/4] partitions: add ->set_capacity block device method Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-06-06 8:42 ` Al Viro
2009-05-31 14:39 ` [PATCH 3/4] ide-gd: implement block device ->set_capacity method Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-06-01 21:32 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-06-02 18:55 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-06-05 18:38 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-05-31 14:39 ` [PATCH 4/4] ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-06-01 21:33 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-06-02 19:12 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-05-31 15:24 ` [PATCH 0/4] partitions/ide: improve Host Protected Area handling Andries E. Brouwer
2009-05-31 15:34 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-06-01 13:02 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-05-31 16:36 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-31 20:04 ` Frans Pop
2009-05-31 22:50 ` Andries E. Brouwer [this message]
2009-06-01 12:59 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-06-01 13:06 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-01 22:00 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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