Re: Western Digital - Advanced Format

2013-06-03 Thread MD
On 03/06/13 06:01, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 03:34:07AM +0100, MD wrote: On 01/06/13 15:59, MD wrote: On 01/06/13 12:56, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 07:38:50AM +0100, MD wrote: Recently obtained WD7500-BPKT (750g) hard drive that apparently snip

Re: Western Digital - Advanced Format

2013-06-02 Thread MD
On 01/06/13 15:59, MD wrote: On 01/06/13 12:56, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 07:38:50AM +0100, MD wrote: Recently obtained WD7500-BPKT (750g) hard drive that apparently snip Will Advanced Format Just Work(TM)? snip If the drive claims to be using 512-byte sectors,

Re: Western Digital - Advanced Format

2013-06-02 Thread Matthew Dempsky
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 7:59 AM, MD mdwavc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: dmesg indicates the drive reports 512 byte sectors It sounds like you've resolved your problem already, but in the future, if someone asks you for your dmesg output, you'll have better luck if you post your actual dmesg output

Re: Western Digital - Advanced Format

2013-06-02 Thread MD
On 03/06/13 03:41, Matthew Dempsky wrote: On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 7:59 AM, MD mdwavc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: dmesg indicates the drive reports 512 byte sectors It sounds like you've resolved your problem already, but in the future, if someone asks you for your dmesg output, you'll have better

Re: Western Digital - Advanced Format

2013-06-02 Thread Matthew Dempsky
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 8:02 PM, MD mdwavc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I had sent my dmesg output for this board to dmesg@... Thanks for doing that, but be aware that's a separate issue from trying to get help here. If you want help diagnosing a problem, you should make things as easy as possible for

Re: Western Digital - Advanced Format

2013-06-02 Thread MD
On 03/06/13 04:11, Matthew Dempsky wrote: On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 8:02 PM, MD mdwavc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I had sent my dmesg output for this board to dmesg@... Thanks for doing that, but be aware that's a separate issue from trying to get help here. If you want help diagnosing a problem,

Re: Western Digital - Advanced Format

2013-06-02 Thread Matthew Dempsky
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 8:40 PM, MD mdwavc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Matt (May I call you Matt?), No.

Re: Western Digital - Advanced Format

2013-06-02 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 03:34:07AM +0100, MD wrote: On 01/06/13 15:59, MD wrote: On 01/06/13 12:56, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 07:38:50AM +0100, MD wrote: Recently obtained WD7500-BPKT (750g) hard drive that apparently snip Will Advanced Format Just Work(TM)? snip

Western Digital - Advanced Format

2013-06-01 Thread MD
Recently obtained WD7500-BPKT (750g) hard drive that apparently possesses Advanced Format technology. On Intel D525MW board through ACPI. On installation of 5.3-release, offered FFS (not FFS2) - ok ;-) First partition auto-aligned at sector 64. I did not ensure partitions were at 4k multiples.

Re: Western Digital - Advanced Format

2013-06-01 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 07:38:50AM +0100, MD wrote: Recently obtained WD7500-BPKT (750g) hard drive that apparently possesses Advanced Format technology. On Intel D525MW board through ACPI. On installation of 5.3-release, offered FFS (not FFS2) - ok ;-) First partition auto-aligned at

Re: Western Digital - Advanced Format

2013-06-01 Thread MD
On 01/06/13 12:56, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 07:38:50AM +0100, MD wrote: Recently obtained WD7500-BPKT (750g) hard drive that apparently snip Will Advanced Format Just Work(TM)? You do not show the dmesg so it's impossible to tell what the kernel thinks the drive