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From: d tbsky <tbskyd@gmail.com>
To: list Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: new drive is 4 sectors shorter, can it be used for swraid5 array?
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2022 20:48:07 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC6SzHLUOP0zyKGLHjcfxcgqy3XSCo2fHLTgZfhU_dNajnSFnA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220330023333.durdl4ydb3pz4yab@bitfolk.com>

Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>
> There is a standard called IDEMA LBA1-03:
>
>     http://www.idema.org/wp-content/downloads/2169.pdf
>
> This says that a certain "marketing capacity" (i.e. when the drive
> product description says "2TB" or whatever) will equal an exact
> number of 512 or 4096 byte sectors.

  thanks a lot for the information!  now I understand what happened to
my disk drives :)

      reply	other threads:[~2022-04-02 12:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-18  3:08 new drive is 4 sectors shorter, can it be used for swraid5 array? Marc MERLIN
2022-03-18  7:54 ` Wols Lists
2022-03-18 12:30 ` Roman Mamedov
2022-03-19  4:10   ` Marc MERLIN
2022-03-19 10:14     ` Wols Lists
2022-03-19 22:02       ` Marc MERLIN
2022-03-21 19:35       ` Nix
2022-03-19 10:45   ` Roman Mamedov
2022-03-26 18:01 ` Tom Mitchell
2022-03-26 18:29   ` Wols Lists
2022-03-27  8:40 ` d tbsky
2022-03-28  2:05   ` Marc MERLIN
2022-03-29  0:13     ` Chris Murphy
2022-03-29  1:55       ` d tbsky
2022-03-30  2:33         ` Andy Smith
2022-04-02 12:48           ` d tbsky [this message]

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