From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: "EXT3-fs error" after resume from s2ram Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:21:13 +0900 Message-ID: <4A574049.5090708@kernel.org> References: <4A4771FD.1020207@warlich.name> <4A52F39A.1030704@warlich.name> <4A5311C7.1020507@warlich.name> <4A535973.9090206@gmail.com> <4A5388EA.7030503@warlich.name> <4A53DA88.5080703@gmail.com> <4A543FA5.1090608@warlich.name> <4A54AD1A.1040009@kernel.org> <4A54B98B.50806@gmail.com> <4A56344C.3010500@warlich.name> <51f3faa70907091631s329255en5fc197091b9ae4f0@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:56507 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751806AbZGJNVR (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:21:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <51f3faa70907091631s329255en5fc197091b9ae4f0@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Robert Hancock Cc: Christof Warlich , Tejun Heo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ide Hello, Robert Hancock wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Christof Warlich wrote: >> Just one clarification: From what I understood so far, it will be impossible >> to ever utilize the full disk capacity as long as the BIOS applies the HPA >> on boot, right? > > I believe that's the case, yes.. if the BIOS is applying the HPA on > each boot, then we can't change the max address again without a > hardware reset.. This is one of the reasons why libata was switched to prefer hardreset so that BIOS lock downs can be circumvented. PATA drivers unfortunately usually don't implement hardreset. :-( I'll forward the patch upstream. Thanks. -- tejun