Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:30:44 +0000 | From | Alan <> | Subject | Re: hpa-problem in ide-disk.c - new insights. |
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On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:09:53 +0100 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> wrote:
> It appears, as if the drive is really approaching breakdown, > remapping bad sectors and is out of spare sectors. Thus
HPA has nothign to do with sector remapping. HPA simply allows the BIOS (or disk by jumper option) to hide part of the drive early in boot so that it doesn't confuse/break old OS/BIOS code, or to use it to hide things like windows reinstall images.
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