Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:10:14 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Mohacsi Janos <mohacsi@niif.hu> Subject: Re: ATA 4K sector issues Message-ID: <201003171810.14087.bruce@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003171114280.74067@mignon.ki.iif.hu> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003171114280.74067@mignon.ki.iif.hu>
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On Wednesday 17 March 2010 10:16:16 Mohacsi Janos wrote: > Dear FreeBSD hackers, > What is the situation with ATA 4K dirves in FreeBSD? Are there any > support for them in fdisk or disklabel? # mdconfig -a -f ddfile -S 4096 md0 # fdisk /dev/md0 fdisk: could not detect sector size # mdconfig -d -u 0 # mdconfig -a -f ddfile -S 1024 md0 # fdisk /dev/md0 ******* Working on device /dev/md0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=130 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=130 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found fdisk: /boot/mbr: length must be a multiple of sector size So it seems there's still work to do to get fdisk working, but I can't try gpart since I don't have a real disk. -- Bruce Cran
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