I am trying to set up a HPA on a new 2TB Patriot P210 SATA SSD:
$ sudo hdparm -Np3600000000 --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
setting max visible sectors to 3600000000 (permanent)
SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 04 51 40 01 21 04 00 00 a0 ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
max sectors = 4000797360/4000797360, HPA is disabled
This was after I made sure the drive was not frozen. I tried it in Gparted Live (1.4.06) see here /// and here, SSD connected directly to the SATA port. I also tried afterwards using an SATA-to-USB enclosure, but no luck either. I cannot seem to figure out where the problem is or if it is simply the drive itself.
