IBM T42p Hard Drive Issue

[Thomas Beer]

Finaly, I found it in my BIOS. But I'm cautious to continue
with the installation fearing to destroy the other partitions.
If I delete the ext2 slice and create a new slice for BSD
two new entries appear in fdisk. And, having moved
the HPA area/slice to the end of the HD, would BSD just
use the slice I assign? What's with the second entry in
fdisk? And what's with a suspend area? Do I have to
add another slice?

Thanks Tom


On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 21:17:57 +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen
<torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 19:50:29 +0100
> Arne Schwabe <arne at rfc2549.org> wrote:
> 
> > Not on the first slice but at the end of the disk, this area seem to
> > be empty but it is not. IIrc the bios also reports a lower disk size
> > to hide that area but Fbsd ignores that iirc. So be careful when
> 
> This is the HPA or "Host Protected Area", and it's kind of a standard on
> many drives these days (search on Google for it). I think it was ATA-4
> which first implemented it.
> Some info here:
> http://www.sleuthkit.org/informer/sleuthkit-informer-17.html#hpa
> and here:
> http://www.techpathways.com/webhelp/Advanced_Tips/Advanced_tips_and_tricks.htm
> 
> It seems strange that FreeBSD doesn't
> account for the HPA, but stranger things have happened...
> --
> Regards,
> Torfinn Ingolfsen,
> Norway
> 
> 
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