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.