On Wednesday 21 January 2015 13:18:25 Bob Proulx did opine And Gene did reply: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Andrew M.A. Cater did opine > > > > > The wheezy installer _ought_ to work with a 4K disk - fdisk will > > > normally work - but ... > > > > It will work, poorly, giving ass-aligned disk that will be slow, or > > slower. > > You seem to believe that the Wheezy debian-installer does not handle > the new Advanced Format 4k sectors. However I use it all of the time > with 4k sectors and it works fine. There is no known problem using > the Wheezy debian-installer to install onto AF 4k sector devices. > > Sorry but I believe you are mistaken on this issue. If you find the > debian-install mishandling 4k sector devices please file a bug report > with sufficient information to debug the problem. > > Bob
Go ahead and install its way, then run an fdisk -l and read the result, confirmed by quite slow readings from hdparm -tT on the drive you just installed it to. URL for the bug reporter? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201501211438.46276.ghesk...@wdtv.com