On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 04:15:51AM -0500, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote:
> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 4:08 AM, David Gwynne <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > i have had a look at querying disks for their physical and logical block > alignments and offsets, but the the WD??EARS-00? drives dont report this info. > according to western digital, the next generation of these drives > (WD??EARS-11? iirc) are supposed to report them. if i ever find a disk that > does report the physical to logical alignment, i might have a look at having > the system make use of those values. > > > > Yes, this is exactly the last thing I remember about this topic. > > > huggz, > > dlg > > > > > > This isn't my boot disk, it's the "storage" disk, I'm going to > re-disklabel, and newfs it; > > Do I also need to do something with fdisk? I'm not sure... Yes, that is recommended. If yo use the whole disk for OpenBSd, fdisk -i will do. -Otto
