Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues.

[Martin K. Petersen]

>>>>> "Tejun" == Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Tejun> * Anything remotely modern (>= XP) doesn't give a hoot about
Tejun>   cylinder alignment.

Tejun> * Anything older (<= 2000) is very likely to get confused with
Tejun>   custom geometry starting from the BIOS itself.  For those
Tejun>   cases, the only thing we can do is aligning partitions to
Tejun>   cylinders abiding BIOS supplied geometry parameters which will
Tejun>   usually be 255/63.

Tejun> So, using custom geometry doesn't help compatibility at all.

Great reads on this topic.  Might be worth linking to:

	http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types.html

	http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/largedisk.html

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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