[Bug 26119] Re: Possible fake host protected area (hpa) detected in ide drive causing SectorIdNotFound

[Josep Vicent Sala]

This problem also happens in edgy with a 2.6.17 kernel. I tried
upgrading from Dapper to solve the problem but to no avail. The hard
disk is a Seagate 40GB model. I had this problem before in Debian Sarge
after upgrading from a 2.4 series kernel to a 2.6.15 kernel in Debian.
It seems some kind of kernel issue. I've seen in forums similar issues
with Fedora distros.

As a workaround I enable dma with hdparm after booting and the
performance is good. It only affects the booting process although it is
annoying, it adds quite a bit of time to the booting process, specially
after the kernel starts trying repetitively to access the "phantom"
sector until it disables dma.

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Possible fake host protected area (hpa) detected in ide drive causing SectorIdNotFound
https://launchpad.net/bugs/26119