Comment 9 for bug 26119

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RoMaNSoFt (roman-rs-labs) wrote : Re: [Bug 26119] Re: Possible fake host protected area (hpa) detected in ide drive causing SectorIdNotFound

Do you forwarded that thread to someone in charge of current ATA/IDE kernel
code development? I mean, a patch should be reviewed and approved before it
 is ready for production. Did you contact with somebody with the skills and
authority to approve this? Did you send it to lkml? It would be nice if
this nasty bug could be officially resolved...

Frank Kuerten escribió:
> I get the same error with a Seagate disk. Someone in a german newsgroup
> discovered the location in ide-disk.c, where the sector is added. Please
> take a look at:
> http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user.german/browse_thread/thread/ab8980cb5ea0a9fb/7f475d3ce8f34211?tvc=2&q=linux+hpa+seagate+0x10
>
> The hpa doesn't really exist. On some disks you have to add one sector,
> on Seagates probably not. (I don't know what the correct behaviour is,
> concerning to ATA)
>

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Saludos,
-Roman

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