Hey friends, my new external HDD has a sector size of 4096:
# disklabel -h sd8 # /dev/rsd8c: type: SCSI disk: SCSI disk label: My Passport 0827 duid: 9210ccc858d72f52 flags: bytes/sector: 4096 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 45599 total sectors: 732558336 # total bytes: 2.7T boundstart: 64 boundend: 732558273 drivedata: 0
I wanted to create a crypto raid on that drive and used the following commands to create one.
fdisk -igy sd8
Then i created a partition with disklabel -E sd8 resulting in the following disklabel:
16 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 2.7T 64 RAID c: 2.7T 0 unused
Now i wannted to use bioctl -cC -lsd8a softraid0 but i get the following error message:
softraid0: sd8a has unsupported sector size (4096) softraid0: invalid metadata format
I looked around and found an old email from Kenneth R Westerback on this mailinglist where he stated that the "4k problem" was solved at "c2k15" but never commited. Is there a reason it never got picked up again? Here i a link to the old post: http://misc.openbsd.narkive.com/xjppPBE5/softraid-4-bioctl-8-vs-non-512-byte-sectors-disks#post6
I am on OpenBSD 5.9 AMD64. Thanks and greetings Leo
