From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: Adding a smaller drive Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:51:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20090628194705152.ITZI24524@cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: (Mikael Abrahamsson's message of "Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:33:55 +0200 (CEST)") Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mikael Abrahamsson Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , lrhorer@satx.rr.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids >>>>> "Mikael" == Mikael Abrahamsson 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