| Date | Tue, 9 Mar 2010 07:34:41 +0100 (CET) | From | Mikael Abrahamsson <> | Subject | Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues. |
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On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Tejun Heo wrote:
> http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_4_KiB_sector_issues
Excellent summary.
> C-2. Windows XP depends on the traditional partition layout.
Is this really true? WD ships their EARS drives with an alignment tool that as far as I can understand, moves the partition so it's aligned to 4KiB:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/advancedformat/
So an XP fresh install (including letting XP partition the drive) will be misaligned, but if you clone xp onto a properly aligned partition (or run the tool and let it move the partition), it'll be ok. So saying that XP "depends" on traditional partition layout might be a bit of a streth?
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
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