John Gilmore wrote: > I received a 3TB Seagate drive today. Due to PC-clone boot issues, > they don't sell it as an ordinary SATA drive, but you can buy the external > USB drive and merely take it out of the box. It's $200. See: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148580
Hi John, [sorry about the delay -- your message was stuck in the queue waiting for moderator approval. ] > I'm writing to suggest that parted developers consider getting > such a drive and testing with it. It's the first ordinary SATA > drive holding more than 2TB. Thanks for the heads-up. If someone sends me one, I'll be happy to investigate right away ;-) > Here's a review of the drive (both as a SATA drive and in its native > USB2 and optional USB3 interfaces): > > > http://www.anandtech.com/show/3858/the-worlds-first-3tb-hdd-seagate-goflex-desk-3tb-review/ ... > [2509832.032135] sd 20:0:0:0: [sdd] 732566645 4096-byte logical blocks: (3.00 > TB/2.72 TiB) A commodity disk of any size with 4k-logical sectors will be very useful from a testing perspective. That it's 3TB is icing on the cake. ... > Here's what parted (2.2) says: > > $ sudo parted /dev/sdd > Warning: Device /dev/sdd has a logical sector size of 4096. Not all parts of > GNU Parted support this at the moment, and the working code is HIGHLY > EXPERIMENTAL. > > GNU Parted 2.2 That warning is gone in parted-2.3. Here's its announcement from back in May: http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6356 _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
