Mark Lord wrote:
Michael Guntsche wrote:
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:38:30 -0500, Mark Lord <liml@xxxxxx> wrote:
One more: Let's see "hdparm -N" for that drive
(note to self: add -N functionality to -I someday..).
/dev/sda:
max sectors = 66055248/15723600, HPA setting seems invalid
Hmm, is the "HPA setting seems invalid" an indication that this drive
is clamped?
..
It's definitely clamped, but that output is a sign that you
may need a newer version of hdparm -- could you try that again
using hdparm-9.3 from sourceforge?
..
To clarify, the second number reported should NEVER be less than
the first number. If it is, then there's a bug in the low-level
libata driver for your SATA/IDE controller -- it's not returning
the high-order-bytes from the SAT command. Several drivers had
this bug until 2.6.27 or so, and some may still misbehave.
A newer version of hdparm will verify that, and also show the correct
value (hopefully) obtained via a completely different mechanism.
Thanks
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