Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 May 2009 17:49:09 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] ide: add "ignore_hpa" module parameter |
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Frans Pop wrote: >> Moreover the (much needed) work from Tejun doesn't help a tiny bit in >> case of people migrating their *working* setups from IDE to libata > > From what I've seen now that seems the most important case that needs > supporting, as well as the case where a working setup would migrate from > IDE with old HPA default to IDE with new HPA default. > > Naive thought: wouldn't it be possible to check whether a partition > overlaps the HPA boundary and warn or even bug out in that case?
It does, you get a warning about the partition exceeding device capacity. Easy to miss that, however.
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