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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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