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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Nikolay Kichukov <hijacker@oldum.net>
Cc: maurice <mhilarius@gmail.com>,
	Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>,
	linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mdadm striped parity RAID with Advanced Format drives
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:57:18 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2DBC8E.1070706@msgid.tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E2D2C23.9010108@oldum.net>

25.07.2011 12:41, Nikolay Kichukov wrote:
> I can confirm this has happened to me once. The drive went just a bit smaller than it was originally. Unfortunately I
> have no evidence of this at this stage. It was real strange. Whatever I tried did not bring the same size back. It kept
> being reported as a few sectors less.

It's possible to get smaller size at one point, by enabling HPA area
in a drive.  I think all modern (desktop) drives support this feature.

/mjt

> Cheers,
> -Nik
> 
> On 07/23/2011 09:03 PM, maurice wrote:
>> On 7/23/2011 9:58 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>>> ..
>>> I'd like to see text that indicates this. I agree with the original poster that this just doesn't happen.
>>>
>> I no longer have the details at hand, as I have fixed it, and it was about 8 months ago last time I saw it.
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-25 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <201107211011.40151.polhallen@fuckaround.org>
2011-07-21 10:26 ` mdadm striped parity RAID with Advanced Format drives Stan Hoeppner
2011-07-21 10:27   ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-07-21 11:18     ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-07-21 11:23       ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-07-23  3:31       ` maurice
2011-07-23  7:11         ` Michael Tokarev
2011-07-23 15:38           ` maurice
2011-07-23 15:58             ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-07-23 18:03               ` maurice
2011-07-25  8:41                 ` Nikolay Kichukov
2011-07-25 18:57                   ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2011-07-21 10:46   ` Pol Hallen
2011-07-22  7:13   ` Luca Berra

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