Re: Merging libata PATA support into the base kernel

Lee Trager
2006-08-18T19:22:21Z

Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Iau, 2006-08-17 am 23:57 -0400, ysgrifennodd Lee Trager:
>
>> Ok I got it now. Anyway I tried disabling it in the BIOS(IBM called it
>> the Predesktop Area) and I still get the same thing.
>>
>
> You would. You'd need to reinstall not using the HPA area of the disk in
> order to fix this, or patch the kernel to restore the HPA on resume
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Well where in the kernel is the code that disabled HPA on startup? Im
new to kernel hacking so if you could point me in the right direction I
could try to patch it myself.