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Message-ID: <20081019120324.GA3455@ime.usp.br> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:03:24 -0200 From: Rogério Brito <rbrito@....usp.br> To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...hat.com> Subject: Re: A small and silly question regarding libata First of all, thank you very much Alan. On Oct 19 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > > hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63 > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > > > What is the current status with libata for PATA devices? > > You can choose to ignore it with libata. Some clarification here: do you mean with ignore_hpa=1 here? >From a quick reading of the code in libata-core.c, it seems that the code tries to disable hpa, if possible. Is that correct? I now regret having partitioned an HD under a 2.4 kernel. :-( I'm wasting 10MiB according to bc. :-( I wish that USB enclosures would also allow things like hpa to be disabled. Thank you very much for your help, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@...ckenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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