double the size of a harddisk?

[Mike Reinehr]

The answer was in the Letters section, linked to the article under Update III:

	"So this is old news :) Although the host-protected area (HPA) can be used
	 for insidious purposes such as DRM/CPRM that is completely hidden from the
	 users, most of the "invisible free space" exists for a purpose -- either
	 it's spare sectors for bad sector remapping, or its capacity that didn't
	 pass factory qualification, that you don't want to use anyway."

cmr

On Wednesday 17 March 2004 07:54 am, M.W. Chang wrote:
> What's the mechanism behind it?
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14597

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