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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:42:34 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: ATA support for 4k sector size
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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