27 Aug
2012
27 Aug
'12
6:24 p.m.
Op 26-8-2012 22:21, Minas Abrahamyan schreef:
The summary is that practically, treating size sectors
as 512 bytes
will work yet for very long time, and for near future it would be
enough to align partitions.
That said, in long run, naturally, it would be better to encounter
real sectors' size.
I remember some emails on the FreeDOS mailinglist mentioning a SATA/USB
bridge presenting the disk (512byte sector size) as 4K sectorsize to the
machine. Time for a different external harddisk then without such
limitation in the bridge controller. Not sure what external
cases/harddisks with integrated USB connectors do with regard to
sectorsize. A few of those harddisks do exist, lacking SATA physical
interface entirely.