On 2/10/2011 2:35 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > 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. That is a very good example of something we should not break without good cause. Sure, you might just loose that press key X to recover boot option, but we still should avoid breaking it. -- 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
