On 9/20/2017 9:57 AM, Alicia Boya García wrote: > Indeed. > > This drive was advertising a ridiculous optimal_io_size that is not even > a power of two (2^16-1 512-byte sectors). Unfortunately this seems to be > the case with more Seagate drives: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2016-12/msg00002.html > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5249211/
You have to love drive firmware bugs, especially when the bastards never fix them.