>>>>> "hpa" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Quick answer from one of my contacts. Desktop drives will indeed >> ship with an alignment of 1(*). The alignment is hardwired at time >> of manufacture and can't be changed. >> hpa> Oh God. hpa> This is a disaster. Rationale being that modern Microsoft operating systems know how to interpret the alignment bits. Legacy XP will work without changes thanks to the shifted alignment. And Vista+ will do the right thing to align partition 1 to what the drive reports. Also note that Windows only aligns the first partition. That's something we need to be aware of when setting up dual boot systems. -- 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
