From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: SATA HDD password problem Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:30:28 -0500 Message-ID: <47CE9264.1010600@garzik.org> References: 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]:43711 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756838AbYCEMad (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 07:30:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "Rus V. Brushkoff" Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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