From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Alexander Clausen <alex@gc-web.de>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4k sector size and WD20EARS
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:33:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1tyrlx5tr.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1004081811200.21305@uplift.swm.pp.se> (Mikael Abrahamsson's message of "Thu, 8 Apr 2010 18:12:37 +0200 (CEST)")
>>>>> "Mikael" == Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> writes:
>> For unknown reasons these drive report themselves as 512-byte drives
>> despite using 4096-byte sectors internally.
Mikael> It's not unknown, it's for compatibility reasons.
We still haven't been given a comprehensive explanation. "It breaks
something for someone" doesn't really give us much to work with...
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-08 16:33 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
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