On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:07:50AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > And what does Windows do? I have the strange feeling it doesn't assume > the same and instead simply sets something it thinks is sensible, which > afaics results in Hardware manufactures not to care much what the > initial value for the drive is or what the BIOS sets. If that's the case > (I never checked and am not familiar with Windows enough to know) then > wouldn't it be the most sensible thing to do something similar? I've just checked again to confirm this. Windows (XP, at least) doesn't change the value, whatever the original value is. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel