On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:19:37AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
Have you tried to buy a replacement PATA disk lately, particularly one no
larger than the 2^28 ATA-5 addressing limit?
No. I haven't tried buying a replacement 386 lately, either.
The bother is that it looks like HD makers will have their way with
512 as they have with PATA, forcing a lot of otherwise useful hardware
into landfills prematurely.
Recycling vs. landfills is an entirely different discussion, but I have
been happy to get rid of PATA drives. My only complaint about SATA
drives is that they are still too slow, too small, too expensive, and
too power-hungry.
But I'm still missing the main point. Should Fedora avoid supporting
4KB sectors just because some users might not notice any improvement?
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