Just a brief follow-up on my questions here (about 2 weeks ago) regarding so-called "Advanced Format" (4KB block) drives...
I just got myself a shiny new Seagate 2.5" portable external 1TB hard drive. fdisk is telling me this about it: =========================================================================== ******* Working on device /dev/da1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=121601 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=121601 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 7 (0x07),(NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX) start 2048, size 1953519616 (953867 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 32/ sector 33; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is: <UNUSED> =========================================================================== Starting sector 2048 is definitely a multiple of 4KB, so I am assuming that all I really need to do here in order to use this new drive as extra stroage for a FreeBSD system (assuming that I am happy with good old fashioned MBR style partitioning, which I am) is just: newfs -U /dev/da1s1 Right? Last question: How could I even tell if this thing is or isn't "Advanced Format"? Is there some tool I could run that would tell me that? _______________________________________________ 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"