On 07/07/2009 03:13 AM, Christof Warlich wrote:Hmm - that doen't seem to fix it :-(:Christof Warlich schrieb:Do you think I can fix the issue and circumvent the BIOS by passingI retried with the boot parameter hda=16383,16,63 according to the
the real geomerty of the drive as kernel boot parameters? This may
also have the nice side effect that I could utilize the full capacity
of the drive. I'll definitly do some experiments in this direction and
let you know immediately if I succeed. Please let me know if this may
be a waste of time or if you know an appropriate fix.
values that I got from fdisk, but without success. Anyway, I would have
expected that the kernel may have had a way to set the LBA48 geometry
instead of CHS, but it looks like I'm on the wrong track here...
That's an old IDE parameter, not a libata one, and 160GB is way too large to be settable using CHS. What you likely want to do is pass the ignore_hpa=1 option to libata when it's loaded - either libata.ignore_hpa=1 on kernel command line, or in /etc/modprobe.conf if it's a module (how exactly to do this depends on your distribution). That way the protected area on the disk will get disabled and you can use the full capacity.