> What worries me though is that while it seems that most systems so far > do not seem to store anything vital in the HPA so unlocking by default > does not cause harm, it is defined as a feature, not a bug, so future > systems can very well start storing vital data there, and then we really > will step in it by always unlocking. Lots of systems store lots of things they define as 'essential' in both HPA and non HPA areas, I've seen uglies like laptops with a 2GB+ HPA holding the windows reinstall for example. Strangely enough the users often disagree on the subject, and also the vendors tend to be sensible about what happens if it isn't there because users do disk swaps when drives fail or as aftermarket upgrades. Alan -- 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
