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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: "Rus V. Brushkoff" <rus@SoyuzKT.Od.UA>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SATA HDD password problem
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:30:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47CE9264.1010600@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803051143450.27209@Soyuz-KT.TeNet.Odessa.UA>

Rus V. Brushkoff wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>  For example someone has laptop with enabled in BIOS HDD password 
> feature. When laptop pass POST, user enters the password, LILO trying to 
> boot the kernel, kernel send RESET to SATA drive and password need to be 
> entered again - so the kernel panics because it cant mount rootfs. How 
> this problem can be solved ? Using initrd image and entering password 
> twice is somewhat ugly. Is this the HDD manufacturer bug ? Kernel is 
> stock Linus 2.6.23, HDD is WDC WD2500BEVS-22UST0, laptop Acer Ferrari 1100.

This is definitely an under-tested area, as most people do not enable 
this feature.

Make sure libata module option 'noacpi' is disabled (0).

It sounds like a software bug, not HDD manufacturer bug, to me.

	Jeff





  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-05 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-05  9:50 SATA HDD password problem Rus V. Brushkoff
2008-03-05 12:30 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-03-05 12:49   ` Rus V. Brushkoff
2008-03-06  9:47     ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-06 12:31       ` Rus V. Brushkoff
2008-03-07  3:54         ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-07  9:17           ` Rus V. Brushkoff
2008-03-08  1:17             ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-08 16:12               ` Rus V. Brushkoff
2008-03-09  5:13                 ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-09  5:13                   ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-09 17:42                     ` Rus V. Brushkoff
2008-03-10  0:37                       ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-10  1:25                       ` [PATCH #upstream-fixes] ahci: implement skip_host_reset parameter Tejun Heo
2008-03-17 12:27                         ` Jeff Garzik
2008-03-07 14:45           ` SATA HDD password problem Mark Lord
2008-03-08  0:51             ` Tejun Heo

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