Re: ATA support for 4k sector size

[H. Peter Anvin]

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
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