On Wed, 12 May 2010, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:21 PM, A. Wright <and...@qemg.org<mailto:and...@qemg.org>> wrote:
> As far as I can tell, it is a standard 512 byte sector. The > general lack of documentation with this drive (shipped in a > plastic "coffin" -- the only docs supplied with it were the > label itself), but on the WD site, they indicate: > Formatted Capacity 1500301 MB > Used Sectors Per Drive 2930277168 As I understand it, all the 64MB EARS model drive have the WD Advanced Format eg 4k sectors. I don't have one and I'm pulling this (from the depths of memory || out of my ass), but I think those drives also have something funky going on where they report normal 512 sector when in fact they do have 4k ones. Either way, it wouldn't hurt to align on 1MB boundaries.
I just got confirmation back from WD, and your nether regions are correct -- this _is_ a 4096 byte sector drive. I have suggested to WD that they may wish to mention this salient fact somewhere. Thanks again, Andrew. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
