From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: pjones@redhat.com
Cc: "ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak,
Highpoint 370) related discussions" <ataraid-list@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IDE HPA
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:59:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1125687557.30867.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1125684567.31292.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Gwe, 2005-09-02 at 14:09 -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> (if there's already a straightforward way, feel free to clue me in --
> but the default should almost certainly be to assume the HPA is set up
> correctly, shouldn't it?)
The normal use of HPA is to clip drives to get them past BIOS boot
checks. The thinkpads come with a pre-installed partition table which
will protect the HPA unless the user goes to town removing it.
The ideal case would be that the partition table is considered at boot
to see if the HPA matches the partitiont table or not. You'd also then
need dynamic HPA enable/disable for installers and other tools to go
with that.
Send patches.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-02 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87941b4c05082913101e15ddda@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <200508300859.19701.tennert@science-computing.de>
2005-08-30 15:52 ` IDE HPA Greg Felix
2005-08-30 16:16 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-08-30 17:05 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-31 0:30 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-08-30 16:38 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <87941b4c050830095111bf484e@mail.gmail.com>
2005-09-02 7:27 ` Molle Bestefich
2005-09-02 13:05 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-02 13:33 ` Molle Bestefich
2005-09-02 14:35 ` Matthew Garrett
2005-09-02 16:24 ` Molle Bestefich
2005-09-02 17:05 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-02 17:44 ` Molle Bestefich
2005-09-02 18:04 ` Matthew Garrett
2005-09-02 18:09 ` Peter Jones
2005-09-02 18:59 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-09-02 19:14 ` Peter Jones
2005-09-02 20:22 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-02 21:14 ` Peter Jones
2005-09-03 0:05 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-03 23:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-07 14:52 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-09-03 0:03 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2005-09-02 18:57 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-02 17:57 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-09-02 14:50 ` Alan Cox
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