[syslinux] Advanced Format Technology

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Jun 16 09:16:34 PDT 2010


On 06/16/2010 12:01 AM, Jernej Simončič wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 1:35:05, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> Realigning for performance just means changing the partitions to all be
>> on 4K boundaries
> 
> Realigning can mean one of the following two things:
> - realigning partitions after they've been created
> - changing the drive mapping so that the first logical sector is
>   skipped (and the first actually addressable sector starts at 512
>   bytes)
> 

Western Digital has a utility which does the first of these, as well as
a drive jumper which does the latter. The former is the recommended
option, as well as the sane one.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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