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 12:33:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4BBDE620.3040601@gc-web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:56375 "EHLO acsinet11.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758788Ab0DHQdR (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:33:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Mikael Abrahamsson's message of "Thu, 8 Apr 2010 18:12:37 +0200 (CEST)") Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mikael Abrahamsson Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , Alexander Clausen , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Mikael" == Mikael Abrahamsson 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