On Sunday 31 May 2009, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Since from the perspective of most users of recent systems, disabling > Host Protected Area (HPA) can break vendor RAID formats, GPT partitions > and risks corrupting firmware or overwriting vendor system recovery > tools this patchset makes the IDE subsystem preserve HPA by default. Kudos! I have to leave a real review of the patches to others more qualified than me, but where the previous patch set raised all sorts of questions for me, this just looks logical. I conclude the following from reading the patches: - a HPA is always at the end of a disk, correct? - the only case where a user should notice a change after switching to 2.6.30 is if he has a partition that starts on or after the start of the HPA: such a partition will be ignored (with warning in dmesg); I guess that is reasonable as at least it will prevent "broken" partitions and is probably relatively uncommon. Thanks for your continued work on this Bart. Cheers, FJP -- 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
