On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 12:19:58AM +0000, Julian Yon wrote: > You appear to have just agreed with me, which makes me wonder what I'm > missing, given you continue as though you disagree.
You asked why 4096-byte-sector disks accept 512-byte writes. I was trying to explain. > > However, we're talking about hardware here, so you have to also > > consider the possibility that the drive firmware reports 512 because > > that's what someone coded up back in 1992 and nobody got around to > > fixing it. > > If that doesn't count as broken, what does? (Also, gosh, when did 1992 > become so long ago?) By this standard, most hardware is broken. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
