Re: IDE disk and HPA

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2005-08-04 at 09:14 +0200, Oliver Tennert wrote:
> partitioning and filesystems. The point is, IF there is an HPA, there MIGHT 
> be a partitioning scheme and some filesystems on the disk which rely on the 
> size of disk being the native size MINUS the HPA.

Thats fine, Linux is quite happy with such a partitioning table.

> Also there might be some contents in the HPA which is vulnerable to deletion 
> if exposed to the OS in such a transparent way.

By opening the raw disk file yes, but that is not a big concern

> Why is the HPA not just left alone?

As I said before - because in most cases the HPA is used just to fool an
old bios into booting a large disk. 

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