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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:48:50 +0400
From:      "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
To:        Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Cc:        =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no>, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org, geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Support for WD Advanced Format disks
Message-ID:  <4C622BB2.3090605@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20100810225012.A8CE35B67@mail.bitblocks.com>
References:  <86wrry1hwv.fsf@ds4.des.no>	<20100810184853.21FED5B5A@mail.bitblocks.com>	<86mxsunpk6.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20100810225012.A8CE35B67@mail.bitblocks.com>

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On 11.08.2010 2:50, Bakul Shah wrote:
> After poking around some, it seems ATA/ATAPI-7 Identify
> Device word 106 bit 13 is set to 1 and bits 0-3 are set to 3
> (for 2^3 or 8 LBAs per sector) for a 4KB sector size (pin 7-8
> jumper on a WD AF disks presumably changes this setting to
> 0,0).  See page 121 of Atapi-7 volume 1 (google for
> ata-atapi-7.pdf).
>=20
> Hopefully this helps in whatever `clean solution' you are
> looking for?

This information is already used by ada(4) driver. If your disk
doesn't lie about sector size you can see both logical and physical
sector sizes in output of `camcontrol identify ada0` command.

--=20
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov


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