On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:20:43 -0500 Phillip Susi <psusi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2/10/2011 7:49 AM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > no way for kernel alone to get all different cases right. The best we > > can do is export all data points to user-space and let it & user deal > > with the resulting mess.. > > Is it even possible to turn the HPA back on when udev runs dmraid? I > suppose that would fix the problems with dmraid. You still don't get it do you.. the actual HPA is irrelevant to this, utterly and totally. Dmraid doesn't care about the HPA, it cares solely about the alleged geometry of the device. It doesn't matter if the drive is unlocked or not, it matters what magic number the kernel tells dmraid is the geometry. 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