> Ok, the disk has a host protected area and now I'm telling libata to > disable it. > > The error messages has disappeared. > > But... Is it safe to do it? I've read somewhere that the BIOS and > other softwares may use that area.
On some systems. Its also used for different things on others (rounding off disk sizes nicely, clipping to avoid bios limits etc) > Also, I remember that with the IDE driver I wasn't seeing that > messages, which means either: it was disabling it by default or > was just ignoring it. Old IDE disables it by default, libata is more conservative. Personally I think libata should disable it by default too but thats an argument to have with Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
