Tom, I was happy to read that OS X does not have this issue (accommodates sectors larger than 512 bytes). The article explained this as a BIOS issue in Windows and said Vista, W7 have work-around fixes. MS has not endorsed replacing BIOS with EFI, have they?
Thank you, Mark Snyder -----Original Message----- Long article at Ars about how M$ failed to engineer a smooth transition for its customers to new hard drive technologies. Changes are necessary to take us to higher hard drive capacities. Apple took care of this many years ago so changes will be no big deal. Meanwhile XP users will take a big performance hit. I really doubt that M$ will provide any fix at all. After all leaving XP users high and dry will just be another money maker for M$. Why new hard disks might not be much fun for XP users http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/why-new-hard-disks-might-n ot-be-much-fun-for-xp-users.ars ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
