From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 18:16:13 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 5B9EB106564A for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:16:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivier@gid0.org) Received: from mail-bw0-f216.google.com (mail-bw0-f216.google.com [209.85.218.216]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7D18FC12 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:16:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz8 with SMTP id 8so1342690bwz.3 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:16:10 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.29.17 with SMTP id o17mr959047bkc.184.1268849769875; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:16:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201003171810.14087.bruce@cran.org.uk> References: <201003171810.14087.bruce@cran.org.uk> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:16:09 +0100 Message-ID: <367b2c981003171116v16aac3bds4758b997045306b7@mail.gmail.com> From: Olivier Smedts To: Bruce Cran Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Mohacsi Janos Subject: Re: ATA 4K sector issues 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, 17 Mar 2010 18:16:13 -0000 2010/3/17 Bruce Cran : > On Wednesday 17 March 2010 10:16:16 Mohacsi Janos wrote: >> Dear FreeBSD hackers, >> =A0 =A0 =A0 What is the situation with ATA 4K dirves in FreeBSD? Are the= re 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=3D130 heads=3D255 sectors/track=3D63 (16065 blks/cyl) > > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=3D130 heads=3D255 sectors/track=3D63 (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 tr= y > gpart since I don't have a real disk. Why not on geom_md ? # mdconfig -a -f ddfile -S 4096 # gpart create -s gpt md0 # gpart list md0 Geom name: md0 fwheads: 32 fwsectors: 1 last: 25594 first: 6 entries: 128 scheme: GPT Consumers: 1. Name: md0 Mediasize: 104857600 (100M) Sectorsize: 4096 Mode: r0w0e0 Same results with MBR scheme. > > -- > Bruce Cran > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " > --=20 Olivier Smedts _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: olivier@gid0.org - against HTML email & vCards X www: http://www.gid0.org - against proprietary attachments / \ "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : ceux qui comprennent le binaire, et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas."