From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: stan@hardwarefreak.com
Cc: Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@gmail.com>,
Dwight Engen <dwight.engen@oracle.com>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfstests: 091, 240, 268 fix for xfs on 4k sector hard drive
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:54:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <521277F0.5060906@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <520D64A9.1060209@hardwarefreak.com>
Hi Ric,
Can you point me in the general direction of these native 4K sector SAS
drives? A vendor at least? Thus far I'm unable to locate them.
Thanks.
Stan
On 8/15/2013 6:30 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 8/15/2013 1:20 PM, Ric Wheeler wrote:
>> On 07/25/2013 05:36 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>> AFAIK there are no native 4K sector drives on the market yet. All of
>>> the currently shipping models with physical 4K sectors are "Advanced
>>> Format" drives. The Advanced Format standard specifies 4K physical
>>> sectors -internal- to the drive, but with traditional 512B LBA
>>> addressing.
>>
>> There are some (SAS) drives that do only 4K sectors. Not sure how
>> popular they are,
>
> Google returns nothing on native 4KB drives at any drive vendor site,
> other than two transition documents at Seagate and Toshiba extolling the
> benefits of 512e technology.
>
> I can't find a press release. If native 4KB drives are indeed
> available, the vendors sure don't appear too eager to tell the world
> about them. The drives of which you speak, are these engineering
> samples, OEM production only (EMC/IBM/etc), or general availability?
>
> Which vendor makes the drives of which you speak?
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-19 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-24 18:32 [PATCH] xfstests: 091,240,268 fix for xfs on 4k sector hard drive Dwight Engen
2013-07-24 23:57 ` [PATCH] xfstests: 091, 240, 268 " Dave Chinner
2013-07-25 4:36 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-07-25 14:27 ` Dwight Engen
2013-07-25 15:23 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-07-25 18:43 ` Dwight Engen
2013-07-25 19:07 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-08-15 18:20 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-08-15 23:30 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-08-19 19:54 ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
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