On 2006/12/07 11:42 (GMT-0800) Randall R Schulz apparently typed: > On Thursday 07 December 2006 11:22, Greg Wallace wrote:
>> I feel pretty stupid asking such an elementary question, but don't >> know how to look it up. What command will tell me the block size of >> a given hard drive? It could also be a command that gives it to me >> for all drives but I really only need it for a particular one right >> now (/dev/sda5), though one that would list all drives and their >> attributes would probably be more useful long term. > I am curious if there are any magnetic drives in common use today (say, > IDE-, SATA -, SCSI-, FireWire- or USB-connected and 15,000 RPM or less) > whose native sector size is anything other than 512 bytes? I bought a couple of SCSI disks claimed to be "good" off eBay several years ago. All the partitioning software I tried on them complained they were unusable. Turned out LLF was required to convert them from 520 (IIRC) btye sectors used by Unix System 5 to standard 512 bytes sectors in order for me to use them. -- "Let your conversation be always full of grace." Colossians 4:6 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
