http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597723
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597723#c46
--- Comment #46 from Tejun Heo
Nothing on parted mailing list, but there is https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_4_KiB_sector_issues by Tejun Heo, who is AFAIK expert in this area. Adding Tejun to CC:.
I definitely am not an expert on the subject. The document is just a result of me trying to find out what was going on and outside of driver my first hand knowledge is very limited. That said, it's true that vista and w7 are using 2k alignment by default and if the BIOS has problems dealing with that, which is a bit strange because it seems the BIOS already successfully loaded grub and after that point I can't think of why partition layout would have any effect on read requests but then again weird BIOS problems are surely conceivable. I heard that some BIOSes had problems with vista/w7 but I don't think the compatibility issue is wide spread and if we're seeing problems on wide collection of hardwares, it's more likely to be our problem. Is it possible to test vista or w7 on the machine? Thanks. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.