>>>>> "hpa" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: hpa> I wish it was left to people like myself. Realistically when it hpa> comes to disks with 4096-byte logical sectors it going to matter hpa> how the firmware chooses to expose it. Well. In the short term ATA is going to emulate 512 (at a penalty for misaligned I/O). SCSI is switching to 4KB wholesale. I have a 4KB/4KB drive here that I have had fun booting from the last few days. hpa> Most likely, the universe will explode at this time, since very few hpa> bootloaders can deal with a sector size other than 512 bytes, and hpa> virtually every partition table format contains a sector size hpa> dependency, which also means you'll break any mechanical imaging hpa> solution. hpa> It's going to hurt :( Yep, it sucks :| -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
