From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues. Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:10:40 +0900 Message-ID: <4B9907F0.6060504@kernel.org> References: <4B947393.2050002@kernel.org> <201003111927.24829.knikanth@suse.de> <472A4C80-30CE-4875-8073-F7E61659B6F0@mit.edu> <201003112030.44605.knikanth@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:33555 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932587Ab0CKPIg (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:08:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: <201003112030.44605.knikanth@suse.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Nikanth Karthikesan Cc: Theodore Tso , Damian Lukowski , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Jeff Garzik , Matthew Wilcox , "Martin K. Petersen" , James Bottomley , lkml , Daniel Taylor , Mark Lord , "H. Peter Anvin" , hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , irtiger@gmail.com, aschnell@suse.de, jdelvare@suse.de Hello, On 03/12/2010 12:00 AM, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote: > But the actual problem here is that partitioning tools might create > partitions that wont allow other operating-systems to boot. So it > might be enough, if the partitioning tools just create partitions > with (mis-)alignment requirement for Windows. Turns out XP is generally OK. The reported problem was only on specific configurations (some BIOS stuff). Windows 2000 reportedly would be hurt but I really think we don't have to care about that too much. So, it seems like we wouldn't have to worry too much about it and just go ahead with new alignment schemes. I'll update the doc this weekend with new information from this now rather large thread. Thanks. -- tejun