Re: Feature proposal: IDE, OnTrack and APM

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:42:47PM +0200, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have this laptop with a way too large harddisk for the bios to accept it,
> so the drive has a software geometry limiter in eeprom and uses the OnTrack
> boot loader wrapper, which sets the geometries to native sizes. Now, 
> this works
> fine until the machine goes into standby or sleep. When it comes back up
> the geometry seems to have been reset, causing accesses "outside" of the 
> drive.
> 
> My suggested solution is to do "ata set max address command" on wd* on
> reentry from APM, setting the geometry to the previously known values.
> Or maybe implement it as a kernel option.

Would it be better to force LBA reads?

	David

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