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> [t13] Minutes of the April 23 plenary meeting > From: Mclean, Pete [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wed 4/24/2002 8:42 AM ... > 7.5.3 Larger physical sector size (e01138r1) [Colegrove] > Still waiting for feedback. Dan Colegrove > is still working on a document update > including changes to IDENTIFY DEVICE data > and the addition of an annex > that describes how to use the larger sector sizes. > Akil Houston from Microsoft made a call for prototype hardware. > Marc Noblitt proposed using a SCSI drive > and setting the sector size to 4k as a test. Trying 4KiB does help show how hard-coded 0.5KiB/block is, especially when the media is removable, ... but doesn't really turn our world upside-down like trying any size larger than a physical page (4KiB in Windows) does. I think we'd all want to compete to help Microsoft out here ... wish I had the email addresses of O.S. & boot Bios folk, Microsoft included, whom I knew cared. > especially when the media is removable I've seen boot Bios poll for media with the command -x 28 0 00:00:00:00 0 00:01 0 -i x200. That is, read the block at Lba 0 of the next piece of media inserted, presuming of course it will contain exactly x200 (= 512 = 0.5KiB) bytes. Pat LaVarre
