Commit d8d9129ea28e2177749627c82962feb26e8d11e9 appears to be an attempt to fix long standing problems with the Host Protected Area defaulting to locked/unlocked and the problems that each guess has when it is wrong. It still causes problems with fakeraid striped arrays however, because it detects the partition table on the primary disk, sees partitions beyond the end, and chooses to unlock the HPA to attempt to access those partitions. This breaks the fakeraid array since the raid metadata left by the bios uses the HPA geometry, which becomes incorrect when the HPA is unlocked. I propose a slight refinement of the method introduced in this patch. Rather than unlock the HPA if a partition goes beyond the end of the current disk, it should check to make sure that doing so will actually make that partition fully accessible, and don't bother unlocking if it won't. Thoughts? -- 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
