Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:42:34 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: ATA support for 4k sector size |
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Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > Because of 63-sector legacy problems a bunch of ATA vendors will > initially ship 512/4096 drives that are not naturally aligned. > I.e. logical sector 63 will be aligned on a 4KB hardware sector > boundary to overcome the misaligned default partitioning. >
I was under the impression Vista didn't do this? Is there any way to force these drives into a sane mode (at the expense of a total data loss)?
-hpa
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