From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
Cc: IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: WD20EARS: finally reporting 4KByte sector size!
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 17:43:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DD44B9C.1050809@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DD0A00D.3030104@teksavvy.com>
On 5/15/2011 10:54 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
> I picked up my third WD 2TB "Green" drive today,
> and lo and behold.. the firmware (51.0AB51) actually
> reports the real physical sector size (finally!).
> Logical Sector size: 512 bytes
> Physical Sector size: 4096 bytes
What is the positive significance of this change? What does this
materially change for the better?
--
Stan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-18 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-16 3:54 WD20EARS: finally reporting 4KByte sector size! Mark Lord
2011-05-16 18:27 ` Bjørn Mork
2011-05-18 19:13 ` Mark Lord
2011-05-18 22:43 ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2011-05-18 23:19 ` Mark Lord
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