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On 03/16/2011 07:39 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "Phillip" == Phillip Susi<psusi@cfl.rr.com>  writes:
>
> Phillip>  The kernel has the ability to read it from the drive and report
> Phillip>  it to the user space tools, which have been patched to use it,
> Phillip>  but the WD EARS drives lie and claim 512/512 instead of
> Phillip>  512/4096.
>
> The saving grace is that modern util-linux/dm tooling aligns on 1MB by
> default instead of sector 63.
>

So, given the correct options ( -c -b 4096 ), v2.17.2 will handle 
the 2TB WD Caviar Green WD20EARS drives which I just bought for my 
external backup device...  Right?

(Along with a current lvm and kernel.)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2011-March/msg00053.html

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