On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 08:48:54PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Jul 19, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:39:28AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
IIRC, Plextor (and maybe some others) had a switch to select 512 or
2048 as the default transfer size,
Quoting Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com (from Tue, 19 Jul 2011
14:33:27 -0700):
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Leidinger
alexan...@leidinger.net wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick
free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote:
But the currently known method is to use
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Alexander Leidinger
alexan...@leidinger.net wrote:
Quoting Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com (from Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:33:27
-0700):
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Leidinger
alexan...@leidinger.net wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy
Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:39:28AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
IIRC, Plextor (and maybe some others) had a switch to select 512 or
2048 as the default transfer size, precisely so that they could be
used as boot devices with systems
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick
free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:50:15PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
I just want to check on the status of 4K sector support in FreeBSD. I read
a long thread on the topic from a while back and it looks like I might hit
On Jul 18, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
I just wish FreeBSD had some decent documentation on such a fundamental
operation. Fortunately there are some pretty good articles folks have
written, but they did leave me with several questions.
Is there something in FreeBSD which is
On 19.7.2011. 19:54, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Jul 18, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
I just wish FreeBSD had some decent documentation on such a fundamental
operation. Fortunately there are some pretty good articles folks have
written, but they did leave me with several questions.
Is
On Jul 19, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Ivan Voras wrote:
Is there something in FreeBSD which is preventing you from using the drive's
native DEV_BSIZE of 4096 bytes, or is it that the drive claims to have a
physical block size of 512 bytes when it is really 4k?
Nope, only that.
:-)
It's nice to
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick
free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote:
But the currently known method is to use gnop(8). Here's an
example:
http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2011/05/03/another-root-on-zfs-howto-optimized-for-4k-sector-drives/
Now, that's for ZFS, but I'm under
On 2011-Jul-19 10:54:38 -0700, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote:
Unix operating
systems like SunOS 3 and NEXTSTEP would happily run with a DEV_BSIZE
of 1024 or larger-- they'd boot fine off of optical media using
2048-byte sectors,
Actually, Sun used customised CD-ROM drives that faked
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Leidinger
alexan...@leidinger.net wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick
free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote:
But the currently known method is to use gnop(8). Here's an
example:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:33:27PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Leidinger
alexan...@leidinger.net wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick
free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote:
But the currently known method is to use gnop(8). ?Here's
On Jul 19, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On 2011-Jul-19 10:54:38 -0700, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote:
Unix operating
systems like SunOS 3 and NEXTSTEP would happily run with a DEV_BSIZE
of 1024 or larger-- they'd boot fine off of optical media using
2048-byte sectors,
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Jeremy Chadwick
free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:33:27PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Leidinger
alexan...@leidinger.net wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Is there something in FreeBSD which is preventing you from using the
drive's native DEV_BSIZE of 4096 bytes, or is it that the drive claims
to have a physical block size of 512 bytes when it is really 4k?
Are there any 4K-block drives that are honest
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote:
On Jul 19, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On 2011-Jul-19 10:54:38 -0700, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote:
Unix operating systems like SunOS 3 and NEXTSTEP would happily
run with a DEV_BSIZE of 1024 or larger-- they'd boot fine off
of optical
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:39:28AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote:
On Jul 19, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On 2011-Jul-19 10:54:38 -0700, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote:
Unix operating systems like SunOS 3 and NEXTSTEP would happily
On Jul 19, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:39:28AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
IIRC, Plextor (and maybe some others) had a switch to select 512 or
2048 as the default transfer size, precisely so that they could be
used as boot devices with systems
I just want to check on the status of 4K sector support in FreeBSD. I read
a long thread on the topic from a while back and it looks like I might hit some
issues if I'm not REALLY careful. Since I will be keeping the existing Windows
installation, I need to be sure that I can set up the disk
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:50:15PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
I just want to check on the status of 4K sector support in FreeBSD. I read
a long thread on the topic from a while back and it looks like I might hit
some
issues if I'm not REALLY careful. Since I will be keeping the existing
On 7/18/11 7:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:50:15PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
I just want to check on the status of 4K sector support in FreeBSD. I read
a long thread on the topic from a while back and it looks like I might hit
some
issues if I'm not REALLY
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:38:00PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
On 7/18/11 7:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:50:15PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
I just want to check on the status of 4K sector support in FreeBSD. I read
a long thread on the topic from a while back and
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