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
next prev parent 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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