From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 11:41:12 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85AF21065672 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:41:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C12EE8FC0C for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:41:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id OAA17488; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:41:09 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Message-ID: <4BBF1255.30303@icyb.net.ua> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:41:09 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100319) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexey Tarasov References: <1A417529-F467-4411-970A-3FF41080AC61@lexasoft.ru> <868w8yukuy.fsf@ds4.des.no> <6313EB8E-D3DA-459F-A372-0E871359FA1C@lexasoft.ru> <86zl1et4rv.fsf@ds4.des.no> <86mxxet437.fsf@ds4.des.no> <86eiiqt3kp.fsf@ds4.des.no> <846676C4-C1B8-44DB-AA01-B664614DE59F@lexasoft.ru> <20100408172421.62d73a90@ernst.jennejohn.org> <4BBDF7D3.3050300@andric.com> <4BBE4032.3030806@andric.com> <539094C7-278A-4674-8A06-E8BAF8F29E58@lexasoft.ru> <4BBF0D36.8050900@icyb.net.ua> <4BBF1033.5030409@icyb.net.ua> <5D7D5FDB-8BF7-4FE6-919A-5C5E7B8784F5@lexasoft.ru> In-Reply-To: <5D7D5FDB-8BF7-4FE6-919A-5C5E7B8784F5@lexasoft.ru> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart and sector size X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:41:12 -0000 on 09/04/2010 14:33 Alexey Tarasov said the following: > On 09.04.2010, at 15:32, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> on 09/04/2010 14:27 Alexey Tarasov said the following: >>>> Or the disk doesn't actually report 4096 anywhere anyhow... Have you >>>> considered that? If yes, can you verify using any tools of any OS that the >>>> disk reports 4K in any way? >>> In the previous discussion we found that the disk reports 512 sector size, but >>> there are additional ATA commands to determine if it has real sector size >>> larger than 4k. I will try to confirm this. >> Thank you. I think that this would be an interesting detail. >> > > Here is the reference: > > http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/WhitePapers/ENG/2579-771430.pdf I saw it, but I want to see what's reported in reality. -- Andriy Gapon