>>>>> "James" == James Andrewartha <jamesa@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Given how long this has taken (we're now talking ~2011 for GA) it may >> very well be that the alignment knobs will be unused because >> everybody will be using Vista or 7 by then. James> The plan does seem to have changed - WD's shipping 4k sector James> drives that are sane and require a drive jumper or tool for WinXP James> and old cloning utilities. The disk vendors have agreed to transition no later than 2011. There are definitely drives coming out with 4KB physical blocks before then. There has been a lot of discussion of the merits of shipping 1-aligned drives by default given that Vista and Windows 7 handle alignment correctly. I don't think there has been any firm decisions in IDEMA wrt. 0 vs. 1-aligned. It may be up to each vendor's discretion, target market segment, etc. -- 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
