Re: how to disable Host Protected Area on hard drives?

From: Lawrence DčOliveiro (ldo_at_geek-central.gen.new_zealand)
Date: 01/08/05


Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 16:14:56 +1300

In article <slrncttor5.7i3.brihall@news.pcisys.net>,
 Brian Hall <brihall@nowhere.org> wrote:

>I notice that all my newer drives have some space reserved for the
>"Host Protected Area". hdparm shows this as being enabled.

Does this apply to Serial ATA drives? Linux 2.6 pretends my drive is
SCSI, and hdparm won't show this information.