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From: Michal Soltys <soltys@ziu.info>
Subject: Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues.
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:06:07 +0100
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Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
>>  http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_4_KiB_sector_issues
> 
> Excellent summary.
> 
>> C-2. Windows XP depends on the traditional partition layout.
> 
> Is this really true? WD ships their EARS drives with an alignment tool 
> that as far as I can understand, moves the partition so
> it's aligned to 4KiB:
> 

XP SP2 (or later) can boot from any place, including logical partitions 
(tested that recently). Most important thing is "hidden sectors" (recent 
chain.c32 can set that automatically through ntldr and/or sethidden 
options). No idea about pre-SP2 ; Win 2000 will not boot from "misaligned" 
(with reference to cylinder boundary) partition.