> A few questions are raised, libata SATA hasn't been resizing disks in the > past, should we only disable HPA on PATA only, a la drivers/ide? In any drivers/ide disable HPA on SATA ports it manages too. > event, supporting HPA lets people who had partitions which extend beyond > the protected area boot with libata PATA. Some policy decision needs to be > made too... Right now, I'm just disabling it unilaterally. Last time we had a Red Hat bitching session about it the main thing the installer guys wanted was a way to find out what size the disk thought it was before we twiddled with it, so that they can make an intelligent attempt to handle partitioning in the case where for example a disk is unpartitioned. A partitioned disk isn't so much of a problem as the partitioning itself tells you the a lot about the state of disk and intended HPA. What do the Ubuntu installer/partitioning folk think ? Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
