Hello, On 04/06/2010 11:28 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > If a system vendor puts its own name or model numbers on the disks it > ships then I think the BIOS or other platform firmware can reasonably > assume that it 'owns' and can write to the HPA on a disk with the > vendor's identification. (I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that > some vendors take shortcuts though.) I would be very surprised if no vendor took shortcuts. :-) >> Ah... I see, but let's fix that up too. It could be worse to have >> half working workaround than not working around at all. I'll update >> the patch once the currently pending HPA updates are in. > > Oh, what are those? The patch I posted is rolled up version which contained currently pending HPA unlock on shrink patch. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/45662 > I want to apply some version of this fix in Debian soon so we can > complete the transition to libata. I would very much appreciate it if > you could answer whether or not the multiple 'capacity change' messages > may indicate a problem. Multiple messages are probably sd doing revalidation of the device. I don't think it will cause any problem but I'll look into it later today and let you know. 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
