On Thursday 22 January 2015 10:34:58 One Thousand Gnomes did opine And Gene did reply: > > I am convinced ATM that this boot stall is an artifact of the fact > > that none of the linux installers used, knows a thing about > > 4k/sector disks, and that somehow in my configuring a .config, I > > have crippled the kernels ability to deal with a miss-aligned disk > > partition, and none of the installers is smart enough to align its > > partitions. The net results of course are 15M/sec write speeds on a > > disk that can do 120M/sec when it does work. But first, it has to > > boot. > > Unlikely. Apart from fdisk the setup is basically invisible. The drive > reports a block size and an offset. The firmware offset is chosen so > that the chassic DOS alignments in fdisk happen to just fall nicely on > 4K boundaries for partition starts. > > There is nothing special the OS does to deal with ATA/SATA 4K sectors. > > Alan Good to know Alan, thanks. I'll turn my flashlight in a different direction then. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- 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
