From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: ATA support for 4k sector size Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:42:34 -0800 Message-ID: <49A5D76A.3010301@zytor.com> References: <1235600698-6446-1-git-send-email-matthew@wil.cx> <49A5CBF7.9000501@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:60635 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750900AbZBYXoB (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:44:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Matthew Wilcox , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sandeen@redhat.com Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > Because of 63-sector legacy problems a bunch of ATA vendors will > initially ship 512/4096 drives that are not naturally aligned. > I.e. logical sector 63 will be aligned on a 4KB hardware sector > boundary to overcome the misaligned default partitioning. > I was under the impression Vista didn't do this? Is there any way to force these drives into a sane mode (at the expense of a total data loss)? -hpa