Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues.

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Hello, Ric.

On 03/17/2010 05:42 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> Dropping any mention of CHS seems to be the only sensible thing. Why
> waste any time to continue some myth about drives that no modern
> hardware supports (and then have the joy of explaining that to users)?
> 
> Talking about it only confuses people and in the worst case, could cause
> them to misalign their partitions by clinging to these pretend borders :-)

I don't think not mentioning it would clear up the myth.  It would
probably be a good idea to beef up the document to clear
misconceptions around disk geometry.  I'll give a shot at it.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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