Hello, Robert Hancock wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Christof Warlich<christof@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Just one clarification: From what I understood so far, it will be impossible >> to ever utilize the full disk capacity as long as the BIOS applies the HPA >> on boot, right? > > I believe that's the case, yes.. if the BIOS is applying the HPA on > each boot, then we can't change the max address again without a > hardware reset.. This is one of the reasons why libata was switched to prefer hardreset so that BIOS lock downs can be circumvented. PATA drivers unfortunately usually don't implement hardreset. :-( I'll forward the patch upstream. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
