Re: 2.4.20-pre2-ac5 Promise PDC20269

[Andre Hedrick]

Fair arguement.

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Erik Andersen wrote:

> On Tue Aug 20, 2002 at 07:40:37PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > > hde reduced to Ultra33 mode.
> > > hde: host protected area => 1
> > > hde: 117266688 sectors (60041 MB) w/1820KiB Cache, CHS=116336/16/63, UDMA(133)
> 
> BTW that host protected area message is pretty silly. It gives
> the appearance that perhaps the BIOS has issued a SET MAX ADDRESS
> when in fact, all the message is doing is enumerating the drive's
> capabilities (duplicating what 'hdparm -I' does).  At the
> minimum, this message should be changed to something more like:
> 
>     printk("%s: host protected area supported: %s\n", 
> 	    drive->name, (flag==1)? "no" : "yes");
> 
> Personally, I think we should lose the message entirely.  If
> someone want to know what their drive can do, they can ask
> hdparm and get a full listing,
> 
>  -Erik
> 
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Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group