From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: WDC WD20EARS and 4k sector size Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:09:00 -0500 Message-ID: <4D3E4CDC.3090409@garzik.org> References: <20110125030410.GA24024@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:58891 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751768Ab1AYEJE (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:09:04 -0500 Received: by vws16 with SMTP id 16so2167391vws.19 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:09:03 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110125030410.GA24024@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Herbert Poetzl Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, "Martin K. Petersen" On 01/24/2011 10:04 PM, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > I recently bought the WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 because it > was really cheap for a drive with 64 MB cache, and I > wanted to try out a 4k sector size disk ... > > Now the drive performs quite well, is rather silent > and doesn't use much power or produce much heat, but > at first I didn't find anything in Linux indicating > that this drive would actually use 4k sectors. See https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_4_KiB_sector_issues