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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: HPA support
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:10:10 -0400
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Alan Cox wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
> 
> Add support for ignoring the BIOS HPA result (off by default) and setting
> the disk to the full available size unless already frozen.
> 
> Tested with various platforms/disks and confirmed to work with the
> Macintosh (which broke earlier) and ata_piix (breakage due to the LBA48
> readback that Tejun fixed).
> 
> For normal users this brings us, I believe, to feature parity with old IDE
> (and of course more featured in some areas too).

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