[t13] Long logical sectors - anything support these?

[Andrew Hill]

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Hiya,

Busy doing some ATA driver testing again. Just wondered: is there is 
anything out there which actually uses the long physical sectors and long 
logical sectors in a drive?

I realise most of you are actually working for respective drive companies, 
but could anyone recommend a drive which uses these features? I'd like to 
see if they work under RISC OS's new ATA driver, but have yet to find a 
drive which uses > 512 byte sectors.

Also, as a thought, with ATA-8, would it be worth a further attempt at 
trying to get SMART logging standardised? Having this feature built into 
the OS would be incredibly useful.

I made my comment regarding improving CRC checking for IDENTIFY DEVICE 
blocks in ATA-8 earlier, but still can't think of an effective way of 
doing this, without effectively replacing the command with an equivalent 
which enforces CRC checking, which obviously carries big downsides itself.

Best wishes,

Drew