Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756816AbZCUNsX (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:48:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753651AbZCUNsN (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:48:13 -0400 Received: from hera.cwi.nl ([192.16.191.8]:42239 "EHLO hera.cwi.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752215AbZCUNsM (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:48:12 -0400 Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:47:31 +0100 From: "Andries E. Brouwer" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ATA support for 4k sector size Message-ID: <20090321134726.GA29916@ub> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 724 Lines: 18 Ha, a discussion about partitions and disk geometry. Greg Freemyer wrote: > If the reported geometry of these drives was changed to have sectors / > track be a multiple of 8, wouldn't that fix most of the issues. It is almost twenty years ago that disks stopped having a geometry. The ATA standard tells disks over 8 GB to report their geometry as 16383/16/63. That is, there is no information in what is reported. It is just a constant to satisfy ancient software. Andries -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/