On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 14:54 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de> wrote:
> > When I use parted on the drives, it says (both the old external and my 2
> > months old internal):
> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> > So no speedup for me then. :-/
so does mine :)
> Frank,
> As best I can tell so far none of the Linux tools will tell you
> that the sectors are 4K. I had to go to the WD web site and find the
> actual drive specs to discover that was true.
however if you use dmesg:
$ dmesg | grep ata
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 irq_stat 0x00400040, connection status changed
irq 17
ata2: DUMMY
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2...@0xf6ffb800 port 0xf6ffba00 irq 17
ioatdma: Intel(R) QuickData Technology Driver 4.00
ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata1.00: ATA-7: ST9160823ASG, 3.ADD, max UDMA/133
ata1.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 8: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
...
you can look up your drive model number (in my case ST9160823ASG) and
find out the details. (That's a Seagate Momentus 160Gb with actual 512
byte sectors).
saves having to open up your laptop / pc if you didn't order the drive
separately or you've forgotten.
--
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
polygon:
Dead parrot.
