On Tuesday 26 May 2009 14:53:43 Alan Cox wrote: > > Please note that no fancy sysfs support was needed to prevent the problem: > > both stacks (ide & libata) support HDIO_DRIVE_TASK ioctl which can be used > > to execute commands needed to retrieve/change HPA setting. > > Wrong. You need sysfs support because you may not be able to retrieve the > HPA settings after the drive has removed them. You also need a trigger of All information was there (kernel logs). Moreover the default in libata is to not remove HPA settings. I don't recommend parsing kernels logs in search of such information but you're are stretching the reality too far to match with your arguments. -- 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
