From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Clausen <alex@gc-web.de>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4k sector size and WD20EARS
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:34:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100412123414.GK7858@nb.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq1wrwhv0ca.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 10:14:29PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> >>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Clausen <alex@gc-web.de> 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?
Unfortunately, sfdisk and cfdisk have no clue about alignment and
disks topology.
Now only the fdisk and parted commands are ready for new disks.
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-08 14:20 4k sector size and WD20EARS Alexander Clausen
2010-04-08 16:02 ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-04-08 16:12 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-04-08 16:33 ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-04-08 17:00 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-04-08 18:56 ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-04-08 17:04 ` Alexander Clausen
2010-04-09 2:14 ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-04-12 12:34 ` Karel Zak [this message]
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