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Re: [PATCH] Support Openfirmware disks with non-512B sectors


From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support Openfirmware disks with non-512B sectors
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:53:28 +0100
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On 22.01.2013 20:39, Seth Goldberg wrote:

> 
> 
> Quoting Andrey Borzenkov, who wrote the following on Tue, 22 Jan 2013:
> 
>> В Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:04:19 -0800 (PST)
>> Seth Goldberg <address@hidden> пишет:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>    Why is this limited to OpenFirmware only?  Can you generate a
>>> patch that
>>> supports 4KN disks on ALL platforms?
>>>
>>
>> It already supports 4K sector internally and queries disk sector size
>> for SCSI, ATA and EFI (at least). BIOS is always emulating 512 sector.
> 
>   That is not true.  True 4k native drives (on i386-pc) will not boot
> with GRUB 2 due to issues in grub-setup (I have a proposal I'll send in
> a bit to fix that).
> 

The parts to query sector size on BIOS are also in. But none of my
BIOSes were able to even show a 4K-sector drive in its boot menu.

>  --S
> 
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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