Re: 2.6.27.10: ata1.00: HPA detected: current 293044655, native 293046768

From: Mark Lord
Date: Wed Dec 31 2008 - 11:32:09 EST


Robert Hancock wrote:
Justin Piszcz wrote:
On one system, two Raptor 150s:

[ 0.739402] ata1.00: HPA detected: current 293044655, native 293046768
..
Presumably somebody or something set up a host protected area on one drive and not the other.. I believe there are some utilities out there that can be used to disable the HPA and allow the full capacity to be used.
..

"hdparm -N" can do this, temporarily or permanently.
Get the latest version from Sourceforge, and see the manpage for details.

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