Re: Allow turning off hpa-checking.

[Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

> What the drive reports as "native" capacity indeed does
> *not* take into (negative-)account those sectors, that have
> been remapped.   So after real remaining capacity has dropped
> below original capacity,  querying the "native" size still
> returns the original size, which is no longer physically
> backed.

This is incorrect.

> I ask for a module/boot-option to allow to skip hpa-checks
> generally, or even for specific drives - to be used, if one
> needs to be sure that these reserved sectors of a connected
> drive are not going to be touched, even when re-partitioning
> the disk.   Afterall that's why they are reserved in the
> first place.

This is a matter for the partitioning tool. You don't know at boot time
what you wish to do with the HPA so a boot option is inappropriate.

Alan