> that has low priority imho, as drives with large sectors > are a temporary thing, will be gone with GPT partitions.
MBR partitioned disks will be gone shortly after the famous gate A20 is gone ;) currently *visible* 4KB sectors exist for a single purpose: to support disks > 2TB for Windows XP. therefore some USB drives to support disks > simulate 4KB sectors, even if the disk itself has to support disks > 512 Byte sectors. Even if the underlyying disk has really 4K sectors, all disks emulate 512 Byte sector size, so they can be used to boot Windows XP. as Windows XP can handle secondary disks with sector size > 512, we will see many USB adapters simulating sectors > 512. the Western Digital 3TB in 'My Book Essential' seems to have even 8K sectors. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
