On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 09:31:19AM -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > A user on StackExchange had a failing SSD that's soldered directly onto > the motherboard of his system. The BIOS does not give any option to > disable it at all, so he can't just hide it from the OS via the BIOS. > > The old IDE layer had hdX=noprobe override for situations like this, but > that was never ported to the libata layer. > > This patch implements a disable flag for libata.force. > Example use: > libata.force=2.0:disable > > [v2 of the patch, removed the nodisable flag per Tejun Heo] > > Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@xxxxxxxxxx> > X-URL: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/102648/how-to-tell-linux-kernel-3-0-to-completely-ignore-a-failing-disk > X-URL: http://askubuntu.com/questions/352836/how-can-i-tell-linux-kernel-to-completely-ignore-a-disk-as-if-it-was-not-even-co > X-URL: http://superuser.com/questions/599333/how-to-disable-kernel-probing-for-drive Applied to libata/for-3.13-fixes w/ stable cc'd and minor description edits. Thanks. -- 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
