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 10:09:59 +0900 Message-ID: <4B999467.4000501@kernel.org> References: <4B947393.2050002@kernel.org> <472A4C80-30CE-4875-8073-F7E61659B6F0@mit.edu> <1268318374.2798.2.camel@mulgrave.site> <201003112035.26743.knikanth@suse.de> <20100311152551.GG1497@thunk.org> <87f94c371003110834t37235274yc641258ac5939c24@mail.gmail.com> 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]:53754 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754460Ab0CLBKc (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:10:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87f94c371003110834t37235274yc641258ac5939c24@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Greg Freemyer Cc: tytso@mit.edu, Nikanth Karthikesan , James Bottomley , Damian Lukowski , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Jeff Garzik , Matthew Wilcox , "Martin K. Petersen" , 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 01:34 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > I do think the linux partitioners should provide a way to force a > cylinder alignment. Tejun, I would like to see your doc describe how > to force a win2k compatible partition layout. I suppose I can play with fdisk and list it as an example but if anyone knows better/proper way to force certain partitions to legacy alignment while leaving others properly aligned, I'll be happy to include it. Thanks. -- tejun