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  1. Bug #26119
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Comment 11 for bug 26119

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Jorge Juan (jjchico) wrote : Re: [Bug 26119] Re: Possible fake host protected area (hpa) detected in ide drive causing SectorIdNotFound

It seems clear that querying some disks it gives an extra sector, maybe
a firmware bug, but I did not find any firmware upgrades for my disk nor
any clue on Seagate support pages. Simply decreasing one sector in the
ide_disk.c code that detects hpa solves the problems (I tried) but this
hack would probably not be accepted by the kernel people. Ben Collins is
our best option to push the problem up, but he has more that 20 high
priority kernel bugs to attend. Unfortunately, kernel hacking is far
above my possibilities.

Cheers.

El mié, 10-01-2007 a las 19:08 +0000, Frank Kuerten escribió:
> @Roman:
> The answers are: no, fullAck, no, no and absolutely!
>
> The longer version: I didn't try the mentioned patch (witch is more a quick hack), because i have two disks, a Seagate with error and a Samsung without ghost-hpa. So the suggested blacklist or whitelist should be implemented. This is far above my skills, i just wanted to connect the threads.
> Please could someone help us with telling the right person(s) about this?
>