From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 11 09:18:57 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E9681065674 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:18:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from smtp.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D52E48FC0C for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:18:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [84.49.246.2]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89CBA1FFC33; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:18:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 123EE84528; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:18:55 +0200 (CEST) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Matthew Jacob References: <86wrry1hwv.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20100810184853.21FED5B5A@mail.bitblocks.com> <86mxsunpk6.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20100810225012.A8CE35B67@mail.bitblocks.com> <4C6222F1.8090205@feral.com> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:18:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4C6222F1.8090205@feral.com> (Matthew Jacob's message of "Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:11:29 -0700") Message-ID: <86bp99eccg.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for WD Advanced Format disks X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:18:57 -0000 Matthew Jacob writes: > Yes, that should be it! No, it shouldn't, cf. extensive discussion about EARS disks on -current. They lie about their physical sector size. There's a jumper setting for "Windows XP compatibility", but apparently, it only affects the (fake) geometry the disk reports to the BIOS. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no