https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299267#c24
--- Comment #24 from Tejun Heo 2007-08-29 06:51:34 MST ---
I don't think I can do that. Considering all the different disk layouts, I
don't think we can come up with a reliable way to tell whether HPA unlocking is
needed or not.
That leaves us with enabling HPA unlocking by default which is the lesser evil.
I wonder how other distros decide on this issue. I'm fairly sure there will
be distros which won't unlock HPA while using libata for PATA. Trying to
install two distros which don't agree about HPA unlocking on the same harddisk
with HPA will be fun. :-(
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