On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 02:38 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.116 > Followup-For: Bug #764572 > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > > * What led up to the situation? > > Another datapoint. I have a hard disk whose filesystems are *not* mounted > at start-up, but after a corruption issue, the disk's state causes a lock-up > requiring a hardware reset and a second start-up (not helpful if this was a > remote machine). > > On the second (successful) start-up I saw these messages: > > $ dmesg|grep sdc > [ 4.934246] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdc] 66055248 512-byte logical blocks: (33.8 GB/31.4 GiB) > [ 4.934523] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off > [ 4.934580] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 > [ 4.934703] sd 2:0:1:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA > [ 4.967651] sdc: sdc1 sdc2 < sdc5 sdc6 sdc7 > sdc3 > [ 4.968073] sdc: p3 size 13333950 extends beyond EOD, enabling native capacity [...] This means: your hard drive has an HPA <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_Protected_Area> configured, but you actually use that area under Linux. Linux automatically enables access to the HPA when it detects this. This was implemented in 2.6.34 and backported to squeeze; you just didn't notice the messages before. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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