From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues. Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:34:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4B947393.2050002@kernel.org> <1268031640.4389.11.camel@mulgrave.site> <4B94ACE8.4060400@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:38343 "EHLO acsinet12.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753491Ab0CHPh6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:37:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4B94ACE8.4060400@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:53:12 -0800") Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: James Bottomley , Tejun Heo , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , lkml , Daniel Taylor , Jeff Garzik , Mark Lord , tytso@mit.edu, hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , irtiger@gmail.com, Matthew Wilcox , aschnell@suse.de, knikanth@suse.de, jdelvare@suse.de >>>>> "hpa" == H Peter Anvin writes: hpa> I would very much like a reference for a platform which has hpa> firmware which can successfully boot from 4K-logical media. It hpa> would be very useful for bootloader testing. I have yet to find one. hpa> Aligning partitions is something we should have done long ago. It hpa> affects RAID and many flash drives just as much or more than hpa> 4K-sectored disks. Yup. hpa> As far as partitioning... I believe we should be using GPT hpa> partition tables where possible. Even on non-EFI systems, it's hpa> simply a much better partition table format. Agreed. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering