From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: 4k sector size and WD20EARS Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:14:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4BBDE620.3040601@gc-web.de> <4BBE0C85.2020904@gc-web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:33085 "EHLO acsinet12.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750833Ab0DICPL (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2010 22:15:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4BBE0C85.2020904@gc-web.de> (Alexander Clausen's message of "Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:04:05 +0200") Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alexander Clausen Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Karel Zak >>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Clausen writes: >> For unknown reasons these drive report themselves as 512-byte drives >> despite using 4096-byte sectors internally. Alexander> ouch. Yeah, I know... Alexander> $ sudo cfdisk -P s /dev/sdb FATAL ERROR: Bad primary Alexander> partition 0: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder Alexander> bug? I'm not sure cfdisk has been kept in sync with the alignment and block size changes. Karel? -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering