Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions
On Friday 05 March 2010, consul tores wrote:
> 2010/3/4 Mike Dresser <mdresser_l@router.windsormachine.com>:
> > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, David Goodenough wrote:
> >> hda: Host Protected Area detected.
> >> ^Icurrent capacity is 268435455 sectors (137438 MB)
> >> ^Inative capacity is 312581808 sectors (160041 MB)
> >
> > Is this a PATA drive, and from there, has a jumper on the back for LBA48?
> >
> > Mike
>
> The problem does not look related with HD, it is more related to the
> kernel. Anyway, You can use a specific tool which is provided by the HDs'
> company.
>
Well the linux tool to do the job is supposed to be hdparm -N, but that
does not work because the correct option is not selected in the kernel
(CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL).
David
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