The ide driver does not list whether drives support things like write cache, SMART, SECURITY ERASE UNIT. But for some silly reason it tells us at boot whether each drive is capable of supporting the Host Protected Area feature set. If people want to know the capabilites of their drive, they can run 'hdparm' and find out. This patch removes this pointless noise. Please apply, --- linux/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c.orig 2003-04-24 03:23:53.000000000 -0600 +++ linux/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c 2003-04-24 03:24:54.000000000 -0600 @@ -1133,10 +1133,7 @@ */ static inline int idedisk_supports_host_protected_area(ide_drive_t *drive) { - int flag = (drive->id->cfs_enable_1 & 0x0400) ? 1 : 0; - if (flag) - printk("%s: host protected area => %d\n", drive->name, flag); - return flag; + return((drive->id->cfs_enable_1 & 0x0400) ? 1 : 0); } /* -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/