On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 08:48:54PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Jul 19, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:39:28AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> >> IIRC, Plextor (and maybe some others) had a switch to select 512 or
> >> 2048 as the default transfer s
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Alexander Leidinger
wrote:
> Quoting Kevin Oberman (from Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:33:27
> -0700):
>
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Leidinger
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick
>>> wrote:
>>>
But the currently "kno
Quoting Kevin Oberman (from Tue, 19 Jul 2011
14:33:27 -0700):
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Leidinger
wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick
wrote:
But the currently "known method" is to use gnop(8). Here's an
example:
http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2011/
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:39:28AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > IIRC, Plextor (and maybe some others) had a switch to select 512 or
> > 2048 as the default transfer size, precisely so that they could be
> > used as boot devices with systems that supported only
On Jul 19, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:39:28AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
>> IIRC, Plextor (and maybe some others) had a switch to select 512 or
>> 2048 as the default transfer size, precisely so that they could be
>> used as boot devices with syst
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:39:28AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Chuck Swiger wrote:
> > On Jul 19, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > > On 2011-Jul-19 10:54:38 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> > >> Unix operating systems like SunOS 3 and NEXTSTEP would happily
> > >> run with a DEV_BS
Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Jul 19, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > On 2011-Jul-19 10:54:38 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> >> Unix operating systems like SunOS 3 and NEXTSTEP would happily
> >> run with a DEV_BSIZE of 1024 or larger-- they'd boot fine off
> >> of optical media using 2048-byt
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Is there something in FreeBSD which is preventing you from using the
drive's native DEV_BSIZE of 4096 bytes, or is it that the drive claims
to have a physical block size of 512 bytes when it is really 4k?
Are there any 4K-block drives that are honest a
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Jeremy Chadwick
wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:33:27PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Leidinger
>> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> But the currently "known metho
On Jul 19, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2011-Jul-19 10:54:38 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>> Unix operating
>> systems like SunOS 3 and NEXTSTEP would happily run with a DEV_BSIZE
>> of 1024 or larger-- they'd boot fine off of optical media using
>> 2048-byte sectors,
>
> Actually, Su
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:33:27PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Leidinger
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick
> > wrote:
> >
> >> But the currently "known method" is to use gnop(8). ?Here's an
> >> example:
> >>
> >> http://w
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Leidinger
wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick
> wrote:
>
>> But the currently "known method" is to use gnop(8). Here's an
>> example:
>>
>> http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2011/05/03/another-root-on-zfs-howto-optimized-for-4k-secto
On 2011-Jul-19 10:54:38 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Unix operating
>systems like SunOS 3 and NEXTSTEP would happily run with a DEV_BSIZE
>of 1024 or larger-- they'd boot fine off of optical media using
>2048-byte sectors,
Actually, Sun used customised CD-ROM drives that faked 512-byte
sectors t
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick
wrote:
> But the currently "known method" is to use gnop(8). Here's an
> example:
>
> http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2011/05/03/another-root-on-zfs-howto-optimized-for-4k-sector-drives/
>
> Now, that's for ZFS, but I'm under the impression the
On Jul 19, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Ivan Voras wrote:
>> Is there something in FreeBSD which is preventing you from using the drive's
>> native DEV_BSIZE of 4096 bytes, or is it that the drive claims to have a
>> physical block size of 512 bytes when it is really 4k?
>
> Nope, "only" that.
:-)
It's
On 19.7.2011. 19:54, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Jul 18, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
I just wish FreeBSD had some decent documentation on such a fundamental
operation. Fortunately there are some pretty good articles folks have
written, but they did leave me with several questions.
Is t
On Jul 18, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I just wish FreeBSD had some decent documentation on such a fundamental
> operation. Fortunately there are some pretty good articles folks have
> written, but they did leave me with several questions.
Is there something in FreeBSD which is prev
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick
wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:50:15PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> I just want to check on the status of 4K sector support in FreeBSD. I read
>> a long thread on the topic from a while back and it looks like I might hit
>> some
>> issues i
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:38:00PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
> On 7/18/11 7:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:50:15PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >> I just want to check on the status of 4K sector support in FreeBSD. I read
> >> a long thread on the topic from a while
On 7/18/11 7:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:50:15PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> I just want to check on the status of 4K sector support in FreeBSD. I read
>> a long thread on the topic from a while back and it looks like I might hit
>> some
>> issues if I'm not REAL
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:50:15PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I just want to check on the status of 4K sector support in FreeBSD. I read
> a long thread on the topic from a while back and it looks like I might hit
> some
> issues if I'm not REALLY careful. Since I will be keeping the existing
I just want to check on the status of 4K sector support in FreeBSD. I read
a long thread on the topic from a while back and it looks like I might hit some
issues if I'm not REALLY careful. Since I will be keeping the existing Windows
installation, I need to be sure that I can set up the disk corre
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