Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:57:27 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: ATA support for 4k sector size |
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Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > Modern Windows aligns the first partition on a 1 MB boundary. > > As far as disks go, initially the plan was to have "legacy" branded > drives with 63-sector alignment. But I think that has been abandoned in > favor of instant one-time formatting. I.e. you can pick your poison > *once* and that formatting will be done in constant time. Any > subsequent changes to blocking and alignment will require a real > low-level format. >
Why one-time?
-hpa
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