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4K-sector drives and Linux

Posted Mar 18, 2010 15:44 UTC (Thu) by welinder (guest, #4699)
Parent article: 4K-sector drives and Linux

Why not start the first partition at sector 63*8?

That wastes 7 extra "cylinders" (7*63*512 = ~250KB) but is aligned
any way you look at it. XP should be able to read it.

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Posted Mar 18, 2010 20:24 UTC (Thu) by till (subscriber, #50712) [Link]

The XP-bugaround mode moves the sectors by one sector, so there is no factor that can be used that works for both kind of disks with this bug and without.