Re: IBM T42p Hard Drive Issue
Torfinn Ingolfsen <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 19:50:29 +0100 Arne Schwabe <[email protected]> wrote: > Not on the first slice but at the end of the disk, this area seem to > be empty but it is not. IIrc the bios also reports a lower disk size > to hide that area but Fbsd ignores that iirc. So be careful when This is the HPA or "Host Protected Area", and it's kind of a standard on many drives these days (search on Google for it). I think it was ATA-4 which first implemented it. Some info here: http://www.sleuthkit.org/informer/sleuthkit-informer-17.html#hpa and here: http://www.techpathways.com/webhelp/Advanced_Tips/Advanced_tips_and_tricks.htm It seems strange that FreeBSD doesn't account for the HPA, but stranger things have happened... -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"