linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] partitions/ide: improve Host Protected Area handling

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Message-ID: <20090531225030.GB27422@ub>
Date:	Mon, 1 Jun 2009 00:50:31 +0200
From:	"Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@....nl>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Cc:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	"Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@....nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] partitions/ide: improve Host Protected Area
	handling

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:04:11PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:

> I conclude the following from reading the patches:
> - a HPA is always at the end of a disk, correct?

I recall from the days of PARTIES and BEER the description
of the Address Offset Mode. If that is enabled, LBA 0 points
at the start of the Host Protected Area.

Andries



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