On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:09:53 +0100 Andreas Leitgeb <[email protected]> wrote: > It appears, as if the drive is really approaching breakdown, > remapping bad sectors and is out of spare sectors. Thus HPA has nothign to do with sector remapping. HPA simply allows the BIOS (or disk by jumper option) to hide part of the drive early in boot so that it doesn't confuse/break old OS/BIOS code, or to use it to hide things like windows reinstall images. Alan - 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/
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