Hi Tom, others,
>> Now the new multi-TB hard drives have 4096-byte physical sectors,
>> at least some of them try to act as if sector size were 512 bytes.
>
> virtually ALL disks act as having 512 byte sectors, even if they have
> internally 4096 byte ('advanced format').
...
> only recently 4
> Now the new multi-TB hard drives have 4096-byte physical sectors,
> at least some of them try to act as if sector size were 512 bytes.
virtually ALL disks act as having 512 byte sectors, even if they have
internally 4096 byte ('advanced format').
search for '4K native' drives, and you will see
from Bertho Grandpied:
> Regarding the next FreeDOS 1.2 and possible later 1.x releases,
> I'd like to see the kernel upgraded to supporting large sector
> sizes, rather than hear fantasies about '32 bit FreeDOS' !
> As far as the 16-bitty-FreeDOS kernel is concerned,
> it's been clearly stated t
