Hard drive evolution could hit Microsoft XP users
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From: Yousuf Khan on 5 Apr 2010 00:20 Mike Tomlinson wrote: > In article <1nc2q5d6okvl6cuv5nufi0vcahj8m6rbp9(a)4ax.com>, DevilsPGD > <Still-Just-A-Rat-In-A-Cage(a)crazyhat.net> writes >> XP apparently will not be able to cope with drives that present 4KB >> sectors to the OS. > > I don't see why. All it should need to do is load a hard disk > controller driver that reads 4k sectors from the disk and present them > to the OS in 512-byte chunks. > > I had a meg-optical drive once which used 2048-byte sectors. That > worked fine once a driver was loaded for it. Good luck in getting Microsoft to write anymore drivers for XP. Yousuf Khan
From: Mike Tomlinson on 5 Apr 2010 04:39 In article <4bb96525$1(a)news.bnb-lp.com>, Yousuf Khan <bbbl67(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> writes > >Good luck in getting Microsoft to write anymore drivers for XP. Aye, there is that. -- (\__/) (='.'=) Bunny says Windows 7 is Vi$ta reloaded. (")_(") http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/windows_7.png
From: Arno on 5 Apr 2010 08:04 Mike Tomlinson <mike(a)jasper.org.uk> wrote: > In article <4bb96525$1(a)news.bnb-lp.com>, Yousuf Khan > <bbbl67(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> writes >> >>Good luck in getting Microsoft to write anymore drivers for XP. > Aye, there is that. And there you have one of the limitations of closed source software. No long-term perspective, unless the vendor has one. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno(a)wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans
From: Rod Speed on 10 Apr 2010 01:59 Dont worry about BOG, he got kicked out of the biggest sheltered workshop in the country, and it should be obvious why that happened. Barry OGrady wrote: > On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:20:50 -0400, Yousuf Khan > <bbbl67(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Mike Tomlinson wrote: >>> In article <1nc2q5d6okvl6cuv5nufi0vcahj8m6rbp9(a)4ax.com>, DevilsPGD >>> <Still-Just-A-Rat-In-A-Cage(a)crazyhat.net> writes >>>> XP apparently will not be able to cope with drives that present 4KB >>>> sectors to the OS. >>> >>> I don't see why. All it should need to do is load a hard disk >>> controller driver that reads 4k sectors from the disk and present >>> them to the OS in 512-byte chunks. >>> >>> I had a meg-optical drive once which used 2048-byte sectors. That >>> worked fine once a driver was loaded for it. >> >> Good luck in getting Microsoft to write anymore drivers for XP. > > That doesn't parse. Did you mean >> Good luck in getting Microsoft to write anymore, drivers for XP. > or >> Good luck in getting Microsoft to write any more drivers for XP. > ? > >> Yousuf Khan > > Barry > ===== > Home page > http://members.iinet.net.au/~barry.og
From: Franc Zabkar on 18 Apr 2010 20:49 On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:20:50 -0400, Yousuf Khan <bbbl67(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> put finger to keyboard and composed: >Mike Tomlinson wrote: >> In article <1nc2q5d6okvl6cuv5nufi0vcahj8m6rbp9(a)4ax.com>, DevilsPGD >> <Still-Just-A-Rat-In-A-Cage(a)crazyhat.net> writes >>> XP apparently will not be able to cope with drives that present 4KB >>> sectors to the OS. >> >> I don't see why. All it should need to do is load a hard disk >> controller driver that reads 4k sectors from the disk and present them >> to the OS in 512-byte chunks. >> >> I had a meg-optical drive once which used 2048-byte sectors. That >> worked fine once a driver was loaded for it. > >Good luck in getting Microsoft to write anymore drivers for XP. > > Yousuf Khan If the hard drive manufacturers want to sell their drives to the huge XP user base, then I would think that they would write the drivers themselves. I believe that WD provides a sector "alignment" utility to optimise their 4KB sectored drives for use with XP. - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.
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