From: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ATA support for 4k sector size
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:47:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090321134726.GA29916@ub> (raw)
Ha, a discussion about partitions and disk geometry.
Greg Freemyer wrote:
> If the reported geometry of these drives was changed to have sectors /
> track be a multiple of 8, wouldn't that fix most of the issues.
It is almost twenty years ago that disks stopped having a geometry.
The ATA standard tells disks over 8 GB to report their geometry as
16383/16/63. That is, there is no information in what is reported.
It is just a constant to satisfy ancient software.
Andries
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2009-03-21 13:47 Andries E. Brouwer [this message]
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2009-02-25 22:24 ATA support for 4k sector size Matthew Wilcox
2009-02-25 22:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-25 23:27 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-02-25 23:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-25 23:51 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-02-26 12:43 ` Karel Zak
2009-02-26 15:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-25 23:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-25 23:55 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-02-25 23:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-26 0:07 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-02-26 0:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-26 0:17 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-02-25 23:49 ` david
2009-02-26 0:04 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-02-26 0:13 ` david
2009-02-26 0:20 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-02-26 2:50 ` Theodore Tso
2009-02-26 3:05 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-02-26 3:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-02-26 3:23 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-12-11 7:05 ` James Andrewartha
2009-12-11 7:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-11 7:32 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-02-26 5:16 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-02-26 12:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-02-26 15:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-26 20:35 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-02-26 21:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-16 14:51 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-03-16 16:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-16 17:37 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-03-16 17:37 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-03-16 18:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-22 1:20 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-03-18 14:33 ` James Bottomley
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