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Re: [LUG] OT: [Fwd: Hard drive evolution could hit XP]

 

Julian Hall wrote:
'By early 2011 all hard drives will use an "advanced format" that changes how they go about saving the data people store on them.'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8557144.stm


The idea that it might upset XP users is interesting. I make it about 12 bytes of code to convert from 4k to 0.5k and back again - to make XP work on them, not optimally I'll admit but still work. I hope someone chucks out the code for this along with NFS support for windows!
BEEB feeding MS fud again?
Tom te tom te tom

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