Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ATA support for 4k sector size | From | "Martin K. Petersen" <> | Date | Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:32:46 -0500 |
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>>>>> "James" == James Andrewartha <jamesa@daa.com.au> 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
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