On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 13:17, "Chris Murphy" <li...@colorremedies.com> said:
Thanks for responding Chris! > On a 512byte physical and logical sector hard drive, the messages can be > ignored. > Alignment isn't an issue. Wouldn't the generation of an error message, when no error condition exists, be considered a bug? At the very least I would think it would be undesirable. What about a 4096 physical sector drive? > For SSDs which effectively lie about their physical sector size, the > consequences > of miss alignment are variable the firmware. If mis-alignment can negatively impact performance, I would expect a documented procedure on avoiding it. Or is my expectation out of line? I certainly wouldn't mind helping document the procedure if I could get a clear understanding on how what the procedure is. > > Chris Murphy Sent - Gtek Web Mail