Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:03:24 -0200 | From | Rogério Brito <> | Subject | Re: A small and silly question regarding libata |
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First of all, thank you very much Alan.
On Oct 19 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > > hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63 > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > > > What is the current status with libata for PATA devices? > > You can choose to ignore it with libata.
Some clarification here: do you mean with ignore_hpa=1 here?
From a quick reading of the code in libata-core.c, it seems that the code tries to disable hpa, if possible. Is that correct?
I now regret having partitioned an HD under a 2.4 kernel. :-( I'm wasting 10MiB according to bc. :-(
I wish that USB enclosures would also allow things like hpa to be disabled.
Thank you very much for your help, Rogério Brito.
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