Re: IDE HPA

From: Vojtech Pavlik
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 12:57:31 EST


On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Gwe, 2005-09-02 at 18:24 +0200, Molle Bestefich wrote:
> > I meant the BIOS setup screen, not a firmware update...
> > Supposedly the BIOS can change the bounds of the HPA with special ATA commands..
>
> I've yet to see a BIOS that exposed the functionality

ThinkPads do let the user enable/disable it.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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