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Date:      Mon, 4 Apr 2011 15:41:47 +0200
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
To:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Cc:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Advanced disk format at WD20EARS: what should "camcontrol identify" show?
Message-ID:  <201104041541.47737.hselasky@c2i.net>
In-Reply-To: <incf8j$dn3$1@dough.gmane.org>
References:  <22830765.20110404101040@serebryakov.spb.ru> <incf8j$dn3$1@dough.gmane.org>

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On Monday 04 April 2011 14:57:55 Ivan Voras wrote:
> On 04/04/2011 08:10, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> > Hello, Alexander.

> If you just replace a non-4K drive in a RAID5 with a 4K drive, it is
> very likely that there would be alignment problems with that drive.

Some tools like fdisk don't work, because they cannot read/write 512 bytes on 
a disk with blocksize greater than 512 bytes.

--HPS



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