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Message-ID: <4A1C7FF5.4060205@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 May 2009 17:49:09 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
CC:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ide: add "ignore_hpa" module parameter

Frans Pop wrote:
>> Moreover the (much needed) work from Tejun doesn't help a tiny bit in
>> case of people migrating their *working* setups from IDE to libata
> 
> From what I've seen now that seems the most important case that needs 
> supporting, as well as the case where a working setup would migrate from 
> IDE with old HPA default to IDE with new HPA default.
> 
> Naive thought: wouldn't it be possible to check whether a partition 
> overlaps the HPA boundary and warn or even bug out in that case?

It does, you get a warning about the partition exceeding device 
capacity. Easy to miss that, however.
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