Re: ATA support for 4k sector size

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Martin K. Petersen wrote:

hpa> Why one-time?

It's a compromise to avoid hours of low-level formatting before you can
use a drive.  New drives will come from the factory formatted in a
special way that can be switched instantaneously.  But once you start
writing you're stuck with it.


That's ridiculously stupid. All you need is an offset parameter, which can be flipped at will. Now, flipping it will obviously scramble all data, but there is absolutely no reason why it shouldn't be possible to instantaneously flip it back and forth.

	-hpa
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