On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:19:37AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > Have you tried to buy a replacement PATA disk lately, particularly one no > larger than the 2^28 ATA-5 addressing limit? No. I haven't tried buying a replacement 386 lately, either. > The bother is that it looks like HD makers will have their way with > 512 as they have with PATA, forcing a lot of otherwise useful hardware > into landfills prematurely. Recycling vs. landfills is an entirely different discussion, but I have been happy to get rid of PATA drives. My only complaint about SATA drives is that they are still too slow, too small, too expensive, and too power-hungry. But I'm still missing the main point. Should Fedora avoid supporting 4KB sectors just because some users might not notice any improvement? -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
