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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	lrhorer@satx.rr.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adding a smaller drive
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:51:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq11vp40y79.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0906290029410.5467@uplift.swm.pp.se> (Mikael Abrahamsson's message of "Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:33:55 +0200 (CEST)")

>>>>> "Mikael" == Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> writes:

Mikael> The 2TB WD GP drives have less sectors than their 2x their 1TB
Mikael> drives.

That's how it's supposed to be.


Mikael> The 2TB ones adhere to the IDEMA standard (per your other
Mikael> email), but the 1TB ones do not. (2TB ones have 3907029168
Mikael> sectors, the 1TB ones have 1953103872).

That, on the other hand, is pretty weird.  Call the capacity police!

I have two 500GB WDC GP drives in a machine in the lab and they report
the correct IDEMA size.  But other than that I don't have any WDC drives
that I check.

Which model is this?

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-28 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-28 18:31 Adding a smaller drive Leslie Rhorer
2009-06-28 19:05 ` John Robinson
2009-06-28 19:47   ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-06-28 21:09     ` John Robinson
2009-06-28 21:22       ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-06-28 22:52         ` John Robinson
2009-06-28 23:07           ` John Robinson
2009-06-29 10:05             ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-07-01  4:16           ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-06-28 21:33     ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-06-28 21:49       ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-06-28 22:33       ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2009-06-28 22:51         ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2009-06-28 23:37           ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2009-06-28 23:43             ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-06-28 23:57               ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2009-07-01  4:12           ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-07-01  5:25             ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-07-03 15:46               ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-07-06  0:05                 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-07-07  3:15                   ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-06-28 23:54         ` John Robinson
2009-06-29  0:02           ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2009-06-29 10:07       ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-06-29 14:45         ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-07-03 16:12         ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-07-03 17:23           ` Billy Crook
2009-07-04 14:59           ` Bill Davidsen
2009-07-04 15:20             ` John Robinson
2009-07-05 22:03               ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-07-05 22:12                 ` John Robinson
2009-07-07  2:57                   ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-06-30 17:01     ` Bill Davidsen
2009-06-30 18:22       ` Greg Freemyer
2009-07-01 18:53         ` Bill Davidsen

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