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Date:      Sat, 13 Jul 2019 22:03:32 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com>
Cc:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 4k sector support (not good?)
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On Sat, Jul 13, 2019, 9:59 PM Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com> wrote:

> Wait... are you saying that our gpart isn't properly able to label a 4k
> sector disk?
>

There are competing notions about what is right...

Warner


On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 11:54 PM Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Thank-you.  At this point, I wouldn't be booting from these disks. Right
> > now I'm just trying to "gpart" or label them and get them ZFS
> formatted...
> > so my test rig boots from it's own disks and the target machine boots
> from
> > a different pair of disks.
> >
> > What I'm after is how to talk to these properly.
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 2:55 AM Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 2019-07-13 08:35, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> >> > If you want to boot from a 4K disk you need this patch at least:
> >> > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19245
> >>
> >> Note that this patch must also be installed before trying to create the
> >> 4K bootable disk!
> >>
> >> --HPS
> >>
> >
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