> > NAK - this is extremely misleading and will just randomly terrify users, > > who may then set the paramater and corrupt things like BIOS save areas. > > Please propose better description. As was discussed before Tejun has a patch in the queue which exposes the HPA and real sizes to the OS Libata can support revalidating a disc Once the HPA/Real size data is there the tools can be tuned for this and a sysfs node added to switch hpa on/off per disc. At that point this can be done by the user space intelligently. The fact this is a user parameter is itself a problem. -- 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
