I have a WD20EARS here. As these drives still report their sector size
to be 512B instead of 4KB (for compatibility purposes, apparently), you
have to manually align the partition when creating it. (otherwise you'll
get very slow performance, ~3.5 MB/s instead of the ~90MB/s this drive
can do)
On 7/4/2010 10:30 AM, lee wrote:
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 02:31:15PM +1000, CaT wrote:
I wont be buying more of these if I can avoid it. I'd rather a 4k drive
that says it's a 4k drive and get on with life.
Well, I wonder what the manufacturers thinking behind lieing about the
sector size is.
lee wrote:
Well, I wonder what the manufacturers thinking behind lieing about the
sector size is. [...]
XP, AFAIK.
-t
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On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 02:31:15PM +1000, CaT wrote:
>
> I wont be buying more of these if I can avoid it. I'd rather a 4k drive
> that says it's a 4k drive and get on with life.
Well, I wonder what the manufacturers thinking behind lieing about the
sector size is. It only leads to problems --- e
On 07/03/2010 03:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Ron Johnson put forth on 7/3/2010 2:36 PM:
This is unrelated. FS block size != sector size.
It is when you use a 4KB drive
Not according to man on Stable:
mkfs.xfs [ -b block_size ] ... [ -s sector_size ] [ -L label ] [ -N ] device
-b blo
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 05:31:22PM -0400, Mike Viau wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I was just wondering what some of the debian community users has been
> experiencing in regards to the new Western Digital 4K Advanced format
> drives? Has any one tried using one of these drives on the 2.6.26
> (64/32 bi
On the link
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-4kb-sector-disks/index.html
[snip]
Tip: If you want to dual-boot between Linux and an
older operating system that
requires cylinder alignment, try aligning the starts of all your
partitions on multiples
of eight cylinders. This tran
On the link
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-4kb-sector-disks/index.html
[snip]
Tip: If you want to dual-boot between Linux and an
older operating system that
requires cylinder alignment, try aligning the starts of all your
partitions on multiples
of eight cylinders. This tra
Ron Johnson put forth on 7/3/2010 2:36 PM:
>> This is unrelated. FS block size != sector size.
>
> It is when you use a 4KB drive
Not according to man on Stable:
mkfs.xfs [ -b block_size ] ... [ -s sector_size ] [ -L label ] [ -N ] device
-b block_size_options
This option specifies
On 07/03/2010 02:20 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Ron Johnson put forth on 7/3/2010 12:01 PM:
I think that the partitioning tool (fdisk, cfdisk, parted, ...) is what
is really important.
It is. The first partition must be created on an even 4k sector aligned
boundary to avoid the performance hit o
On 07/03/2010 01:40 PM, Mike Viau wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:01:40 -0500 wrote:
>
> I think that the partitioning tool (fdisk, cfdisk, parted, ...) is
> what is really important. That is because filesystems already use
> 4KB block sizes.
>
> Possibly also fsck.
>
> There was a recen
Ron Johnson put forth on 7/3/2010 12:01 PM:
> I think that the partitioning tool (fdisk, cfdisk, parted, ...) is what
> is really important.
It is. The first partition must be created on an even 4k sector aligned
boundary to avoid the performance hit of unaligned access. However, from all
I've
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 14:31, Mike Viau wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I was just wondering what some of the debian community users has been
> experiencing in regards to the new Western Digital 4K Advanced format
> drives? Has any one tried using one of these drives on the 2.6.26 (64/32
> bit) kernel sh
> On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:01:40 -0500 wrote:
>
> I think that the partitioning tool (fdisk, cfdisk, parted, ...) is
> what is really important. That is because filesystems already use
> 4KB block sizes.
>
> Possibly also fsck.
>
> There was a recent IBM DeveloperWorks article on this very top
From: vi...@sheridanc.on.ca
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Debian support on newer 4K Advanced format drives (rather than
512 bytes)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:31:22 -0400
Hello List,
I was just wondering what some of the debian community
: vi...@sheridanc.on.ca
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Debian support on newer 4K Advanced format drives (rather than 512
bytes)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:31:22 -0400
Hello List,
I was just wondering what some of the debian community users has been
experiencing in regards to
Hello List,
I was just wondering what some of the debian community users has been
experiencing in regards to the new Western Digital 4K Advanced format drives?
Has any one tried using one of these drives on the 2.6.26 (64/32 bit) kernel
shipped with Lenny stable? How about with the 2.6.32
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