Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:05:56 +0800 | From | James Andrewartha <> | Subject | Re: ATA support for 4k sector size |
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Martin K. Petersen wrote: >>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> writes: > > Matthew> Lowest aligned logical block address=0 > > Matthew> This disagrees with Martin's assertion. > > The original roadmap was to transition to 4KB sectors in 2006, > coinciding with the Vista release. > > 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.
The plan does seem to have changed - WD's shipping 4k sector drives that are sane and require a drive jumper or tool for WinXP and old cloning utilities.
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/18115 http://wdc.com/en/products/advancedformat/ http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/whitepapers/en/2579-771430-A00.pdf
-- James Andrewartha
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