Re: ATA support for 4k sector size

[H. Peter Anvin]

Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> Modern Windows aligns the first partition on a 1 MB boundary.
>
> As far as disks go, initially the plan was to have "legacy" branded
> drives with 63-sector alignment.  But I think that has been abandoned in
> favor of instant one-time formatting.  I.e. you can pick your poison
> *once* and that formatting will be done in constant time.  Any
> subsequent changes to blocking and alignment will require a real
> low-level format.

Why one-time?

	-hpa
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