Re: "EXT3-fs error" after resume from s2ram

Tejun Heo
2009-07-10T13:21:26Z

Hello,

Robert Hancock wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Christof Warlich<christof@warlich.name> wrote:
>> Just one clarification: From what I understood so far, it will be impossible
>> to ever utilize the full disk capacity as long as the BIOS applies the HPA
>> on boot, right?
>
> I believe that's the case, yes.. if the BIOS is applying the HPA on
> each boot, then we can't change the max address again without a
> hardware reset..

This is one of the reasons why libata was switched to prefer hardreset
so that BIOS lock downs can be circumvented. PATA drivers
unfortunately usually don't implement hardreset. :-(

I'll forward the patch upstream.

Thanks.

--
tejun