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Date:      Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:53:14 +0100 (CET)
From:      Mohacsi Janos <mohacsi@niif.hu>
To:        =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATA 4K sector issues
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003171652260.74067@mignon.ki.iif.hu>
In-Reply-To: <86tysf58a2.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003171114280.74067@mignon.ki.iif.hu> <86tysf58a2.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:

> Mohacsi Janos <mohacsi@niif.hu> writes:
>> What is the situation with ATA 4K dirves in FreeBSD? Are there
>> any support for them in fdisk or disklabel?
>
> Hmm, didn't we discuss this already?  All we need to do is change the
> defaults in fdisk so it rounds partition offsets and sizes to a multiple
> of 8 sectors (or 16 for future-proofing) instead of aligning them with
> fictitious cylinder boundaries.  Bsdlabel, as disklabel is properly
> known, already DTRT: by default, the first partition starts at offset
> 16.  Just make sure you specify sizes that are divisible by 8 or 16
> blocks (not an issue if you use the M or G suffixes).  Sysinstall
> operates in megabytes.

Thanks for the information.




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