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author | srs5694 <srs5694@users.sourceforge.net> | 2010-01-03 20:57:08 -0500 |
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committer | srs5694 <srs5694@users.sourceforge.net> | 2010-01-03 20:57:08 -0500 |
commit | 5d58fe0ea12c9c727c8a970c8e1ac08ea7fbe05f (patch) | |
tree | 56f8e7514b233fa9b7d0cba24115ffc616e81d66 /README | |
parent | 1d1448a82d62ad32a8d597ed9ade46b4f37d8eb5 (diff) | |
download | sgdisk-5d58fe0ea12c9c727c8a970c8e1ac08ea7fbe05f.tar.gz |
Version 0.5.3 changes. Minor bug fixes & detection of the number of
logical sectors per physical sector on Linux 2.6.32 and above.
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@@ -53,23 +53,22 @@ to make it available. Caveats ------- -THIS SOFTWARE IS EARLY BETA SOFTWARE! IF IT WIPES OUT YOUR HARD DISK OR -EATS YOUR CAT, DON'T BLAME ME! To date, I've tested the software mainly on -two USB flash drives, 2 GiB and 8 GiB in size. I've also made a few minor -tweaks to a production system with a 500 GiB hard disk and made more -extensive changes to a handful of 80-160 GiB hard disks. I believe all -data-corruption bugs to be squashed, but I know full well that the odds of -my missing something are high. This is particularly true for large drives; -I have no way of testing the software with > 2TiB drives, which will test -the 64-bit sector pointer support. I've received user reports of success -with >2TiB drives, though. +THIS SOFTWARE IS BETA SOFTWARE! IF IT WIPES OUT YOUR HARD DISK OR EATS YOUR +CAT, DON'T BLAME ME! To date, I've tested the software on several USB flash +drives, a handful of PATA and SATA hard disks, and several virtual disks in +a QEMU environment. I believe all data-corruption bugs to be squashed, but +I know full well that the odds of my missing something are high. This is +particularly true for large drives; my only direct testing with such disks +is with virtual QEMU disks. I've received user reports of success with +RAID arrays over 2TiB in size, though. My main development platform is a system running the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 8.04. I've also tested on 64-bit OpenSuSE, 32-bit Fedora 10, 32-bit -Ubuntu 6.10, 64-bit Gentoo, 32-bit PowerPC Linux, 32-bit Intel-based Mac -OS X, and 64-bit Fedora 7.1. Problems relating to 64-bit integers on the -32-bit Linux have been common during development and may crop up in the -future. The Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and big-endian (PowerPC) support are new. +Fedora 11, 32-bit Ubuntu 6.10, 64-bit Ubunut 9.10, 64-bit Gentoo, 32-bit +PowerPC Debian Linux, 32-bit Intel-based Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6, and 64-bit +FreeBSD 7.1. Problems relating to 64-bit integers on the 32-bit Linux have +been common during development and may crop up in the future. The Mac OS X, +FreeBSD, and big-endian (PowerPC) support are new. Redistribution -------------- |