From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay1.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.111]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FD507F99 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:54:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by relay1.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF968F8039 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:54:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from greer.hardwarefreak.com (mo-65-41-216-221.sta.embarqhsd.net [65.41.216.221]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id m1otfJl4vPd1UQIj for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:54:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <521277F0.5060906@hardwarefreak.com> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:54:24 -0500 From: Stan Hoeppner MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfstests: 091, 240, 268 fix for xfs on 4k sector hard drive References: <20130724143208.34b77534@oracle.com> <20130724235739.GR19986@dastard> <51F0AB56.7020705@hardwarefreak.com> <520D1BD8.9090208@gmail.com> <520D64A9.1060209@hardwarefreak.com> In-Reply-To: <520D64A9.1060209@hardwarefreak.com> Reply-To: stan@hardwarefreak.com List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: stan@hardwarefreak.com Cc: Ric Wheeler , Dwight Engen , xfs@oss.sgi.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? _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs