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Date:      Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:03:38 +0400
From:      Alexey Tarasov <me@lexasoft.ru>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS raidz and 4k sector disks
Message-ID:  <492FB7C5-1B48-46BA-B63F-E7CBF7A0A195@lexasoft.ru>
In-Reply-To: <honbv1$pm4$1@dough.gmane.org>
References:  <DEB8C86C-A672-4E61-B42F-630C26164DED@lexasoft.ru> <honbv1$pm4$1@dough.gmane.org>

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According to mailing lists, these drives can't be configured to present =
4k sectors to OS.
Emulation jumper only changes first LBA number to 1 to made WinXP start =
first partition from 64 sector (63+1).
May be fresh firmware update can solve this problem.

On 28.03.2010, at 14:44, Ivan Voras wrote:

> AFAIK (I don't have actual experience with them) current 4k drives =
emulate 512b drives and have a performance penalty in the above =
scenario. Because of this emulation, ZFS doesn't know you have a 4k =
drive. If you can, try disabling this emulation and make it present to =
the operating system as a true 4k drive. Of course, this will make the =
data on it unreadable - you will have to reformat it, and the drive will =
be unbootable.
>=20
> Good luck and report what you find.
>=20
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