casper....@sun.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:49 PM, <casper....@sun.com> wrote:
I'm not sure that that is correct; the drive works on naive clients but I
believe it can reveal its true colors.
The drive reports 512 byte sectors to all hosts. AFAIK there's no way
to make it report 4k sectors.
Too bad because it makes it less useful (specifically because the label
mentions sectors and if you can use bigger sectors, you can address a
larger drive).
Having now read a number of forums about these, there's a strong feeling
WD screwed up by not providing a switch to disable pseudo 512b access so
you can use the 4k native. The industry as a whole will transition to 4k
sectorsize over next few years, but these first 4k sectorsize HDs are
rather less useful with 4k sectorsize-aware OS's. Let's hope other
manufacturers get this right in their first 4k products.
--
Andrew Gabriel
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