Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] fix two issues with virtio-blk

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 14.05.2010 05:07, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> SeaBIOS only supports 512 byte sectors for floppies/harddrives and
> only supports 2048 byte sectors for cdroms.  I suppose one could
> implement an emulation layer (similar to the way the "El Torito" spec
> can make a cdrom look like a harddrive), but so far nothing has
> required that.
>
> I suspect future drives will boot in a legacy mode that uses a 512
> byte block interface - exactly because of these types of issues.

The following links may provide some helpful insight:
http://lwn.net/Articles/322777/
https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_4_KiB_sector_issues

Regards,
Carl-Daniel