On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 03:37:14PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > Probably the fakeraid layers need a way to see the geometry reported > before unlock, then they can make their own decisions. The lock/unlock in > hardware is just a hardware hack. We can still do the unlocking of > hardware and using whatever values we choose in software at different > points. > > "Should we unlock" is almost an academic debate given we are the OS and > control the commands sent to the drive anyway. Agreed. We're screwed whether we unlock or leave it alone. I think the best way is to export the original size via sysfs and always unlock and let dmraid and whatever stuff which expects metadata at the end use the bios size. I seem to recall actually implementing it. Wondering where it went.... -- 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
