Hi, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Read the ATA and SCSI specifications. Or ask on either mailing list. In short, the drive presents its LBA addressing based on 512B sectors. The kernel can't choose to ignore that--it's stuck with it. Since the drive is presenting LBA based on 512B sectors, there is no way the kernel can address LBA based on 4K sectors.
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-2-6-37-Part-3-Network-and-storage-hardware-1153025.html <quote> Storage - The H Open Source: News and FeaturesNumerous changes to the network and storage code are to increase processing speed and improve the system's hardware support. Among the new additions are a PPTP stack, various drivers for Wi-Fi hardware by Atheros, Broadcom and Realtek, and code for hard disks with a logical sector size of 4 Kbytes
</quote>Now, when will stable release have a 2.6.37 kernel? And are all those changes "non-free" -- so to be included in "supported" versions of Debian?
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