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Date:      Sat, 20 Sep 2014 00:21:36 -0600
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
To:        Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>
Cc:        Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au>
Subject:   Re: getting to 4K disk blocks in ZFS
Message-ID:  <9F3CB84B-E0F1-4343-8E37-4E4A9F252C52@scsiguy.com>
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On Sep 19, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@scsiguy.com> wrote:

> On Sep 11, 2014, at 5:32 PM, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> =
wrote:
>=20
>> On 11-9-2014 19:49, Peter Wemm wrote:
>>>> Another downside is 1/4th of uberblocks, 32 vs 128.
>>>> Also, automatic sector size detection works great for me and I've =
never had
>>>> a need to manually tweak ashift.
>>>=20
>>> Unfortunately, I have.  Same drive connected two different ways:
>>>=20
>>> da12 at mps1 bus 0 scbus1 target 11 lun 0
>>> da12: <ATA ST4000VN000-1H41 SC43> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-6 device=20=

>>> da12: 600.000MB/s transfers
>>> da12: Command Queueing enabled
>>> da12: 3815447MB (7814037168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 486401C)
>>>=20
>>> ada1 at ahcich1 bus 0 scbus3 target 0 lun 0
>>> ada1: <ATA ST4000VN000-1H41 SC43> ATA-8 SATA 3.x device
>>> ada1: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
>>> ada1: Command Queueing enabled
>>> ada1: 3815447MB (7814037168 512 byte sectors:  16H 63S/T 16383C)
>>> ada1: quirks=3D0x1<4K>
>>>=20
>>> The 4k flag is missing when it's on the sas controller.  The Ident =
strings are=20
>>> changed.
>>>=20
>>> This came up elsewhere recently.
>>=20
>> I reported the same fact for the new set of WD REDs I installed.
>> Seems that ada and da have different quirks tables...
>> So disks on SATA connectors on the motherboard are diagnosed as being =
4Kb.
>> The disks on my twa don't get the quirk and are considered 512b
>>=20
>> =97WjW
>=20
> I=92m surprised that we have to constantly add quirks.  Are these =
drives really failing to report their ata params correctly?  Is there a =
reason we don=92t currently utilize the ata params data (which is =
already fetched for trim/unmap detection) to also set lbppbe (logical =
block per physical block exponent) and lalba (lowest aligned lba)?  We =
may find that many of the existing quirks are unnecessary if we fix the =
probe code.
>=20
> =97
> Justin


Here=92s a start at using the ata_params sector size data.  I think it =
needs to go a bit further and detect situations where the SCSI =
controller=92s emulation gets the logical sector size wrong and fail to =
attach - but I=92m out of steam for tonight.

Note that this patch is against Spectra Logic=92s FreeBSD/stable/10=92ish =
tree, so may not apply cleanly for you as is.  I can rebase it against =
head tomorrow if there is interest and someone else doesn=92t beat me to =
it.




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