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On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 04:55:50PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Thought about 4k sectors, to be found in new disks sometime soon?

Some new SAS drives use 4k sectors, and SATA is going to at some point
as well.  It seems to be currently in testing, but some of the linux
kernel developers have test drives that use 4k sectors for development.

-- 
Len Sorensen