On Iau, 2005-08-04 at 09:14 +0200, Oliver Tennert wrote: > partitioning and filesystems. The point is, IF there is an HPA, there MIGHT > be a partitioning scheme and some filesystems on the disk which rely on the > size of disk being the native size MINUS the HPA.
Thats fine, Linux is quite happy with such a partitioning table. > Also there might be some contents in the HPA which is vulnerable to deletion > if exposed to the OS in such a transparent way. By opening the raw disk file yes, but that is not a big concern > Why is the HPA not just left alone? As I said before - because in most cases the HPA is used just to fool an old bios into booting a large disk. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
