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Date:      Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:11:04 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>, Mohacsi Janos <mohacsi@niif.hu>
Subject:   Re: ATA 4K sector issues
Message-ID:  <201003170411.05092.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BA0B0D8.1030204@icyb.net.ua>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003171114280.74067@mignon.ki.iif.hu> <4BA0B0D8.1030204@icyb.net.ua>

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On Wednesday 17 March 2010 03:37:12 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 17/03/2010 12:16 Mohacsi Janos said the following:
> > Dear FreeBSD hackers,
> >     What is the situation with ATA 4K dirves in FreeBSD? Are there
> > any support for them in fdisk or disklabel?
> > More information at:
> > http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_4_KiB_sector_issues
>
> Did you mean to say gpart(1)? :)
> AFAIK, the tool(s) do not auto-align on 4K boundaries, but they give
> user an ability to do that by hand.
> Besides, some 4K sector disks lie that they have 512 sectors.

An article on the effect is located at
http://storageeffect.media.seagate.com/2010/03/storage-effect/y2-011k-looming-for-windows-xp-users/

Kent

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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