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On 21/01/11 03:23, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Having googled around and read a bunch of posts on this I found a reference
to this:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/hpa-issues.htm">http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/hpa-issues.htm</a>
Looks like good information but not sure it applies to you.
Andy
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Andy you've cracked it, thanks a million! This _is_ a Dell machine
with the staggeringly ill considered "Media Direct" partition and
those symptoms were exactly what I was seeing. I've since reset the
host protected area with Hitachi's excellent "Feature Tool" boot
disk and my disks are back to normal :D<br>
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Now, to clone that pesky disk again! Apparently the trick is to zero
out LBA-3 before it's had chance to boot and mess with the HPA. <br>
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I take it dd can be used to do that too?. e.g.<br>
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/stuff/80gb_image_copy.dd bs=512 count=1
conv=notrunc skip=3<br>
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So thanks once again, I owe you a couple of pints for that one!<br>
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Roger.<br>
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