From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [RFT] libata hpa support Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:41:44 -0400 Message-ID: <46016E58.5010509@garzik.org> References: <20070223170625.GA29931@athena.road.mcmartin.ca> <20070321130140.GA4328@athena.road.mcmartin.ca> <20070321183455.00f4732b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:46439 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933227AbXCURls (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:41:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070321183455.00f4732b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Kyle McMartin , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, mjg59@ubuntu.com Alan Cox wrote: > It may also fail to allow any resizing if the Macbook issues a security > freeze from the firmware before the OS boots, if so we won't be able to > resize the HPA or set/change passwords on the disk. If they are doing > that then its a fairly sensible security choice. That reminds me, there have been suggestions in the past that we should do a security freeze after probing and configuring. Jeff