{"id":293,"date":"2011-12-05T10:16:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T08:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.atola.com\/hpa-and-dco-max-address-management\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T12:51:00","slug":"hpa-and-dco-max-address-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atola.com\/blog\/hpa-and-dco-max-address-management\/","title":{"rendered":"HPA and DCO max address management"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bandura_frame\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/atola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/hpadco-dco-set_thumb1_thumb.png\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Bandura (since <a href=\"https:\/\/bandura.atola.com\/update.html\">firmware version 1.1.5<\/a>) enables users to easily manage the <strong>HPA<\/strong> (Host Protected Area) and <strong>DCO<\/strong> (Device Configuration Overlay) settings in order to set the max address of a hard drive. The three below functions can be executed quickly and easily.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Set HPA address<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Establish HPA address restriction. After function is executed, the ID sector will display any address set by the user (example: 500GB hard drive may be reduced to 250GB).<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Restore DCO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Restores <b>all factory settings <\/b>of disk. If a max LBA address restriction is set, it will be removed and the ID sector will use the hard drive\u2019s native max address.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Restore HPA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Removes HPA address restriction if it is set. After the function is executed, the ID sector will display the hard drive\u2019s native max address.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bandura shows max LBA restricted in HPA and DCO <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"bandura_frame\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/atola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/hpadco-hpa-and-dco-set_thumb1_thumb.png\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Changing HPA max address restriction<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"bandura_frame\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"hpadco-set-native-max-address_thumb1\" src=\"https:\/\/atola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/hpadco-set-native-max-address_thumb1_thumb.png\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bandura (since firmware version 1.1.5) enables users to easily manage the HPA (Host Protected Area) and DCO (Device Configuration Overlay) settings in order to set the max address of a hard drive. The three below functions can be executed quickly and easily. 1. Set HPA address Establish HPA address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HPA and DCO max address management<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/atola.com\/blog\/hpa-and-dco-max-address-management\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HPA and DCO max address management\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Bandura (since firmware version 1.1.5) enables users to easily manage the HPA (Host Protected Area) and DCO (Device Configuration Overlay) settings in order to set the max address of a hard drive. 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