Do you forwarded that thread to someone in charge of current ATA/IDE kernel code development? I mean, a patch should be reviewed and approved before it is ready for production. Did you contact with somebody with the skills and authority to approve this? Did you send it to lkml? It would be nice if this nasty bug could be officially resolved...
Frank Kuerten escribió: > I get the same error with a Seagate disk. Someone in a german newsgroup > discovered the location in ide-disk.c, where the sector is added. Please > take a look at: > http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user.german/browse_thread/thread/ab8980cb5ea0a9fb/7f475d3ce8f34211?tvc=2&q=linux+hpa+seagate+0x10 > > The hpa doesn't really exist. On some disks you have to add one sector, > on Seagates probably not. (I don't know what the correct behaviour is, > concerning to ATA) > -- Saludos, -Roman PGP Fingerprint: 09BB EFCD 21ED 4E79 25FB 29E1 E47F 8A7D EAD5 6742 [Key ID: 0xEAD56742. Available at KeyServ] -- Possible fake host protected area (hpa) detected in ide drive causing SectorIdNotFound https://launchpad.net/bugs/26119 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs