Re: Hard drive spec change

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On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 04:21:47PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Alexander Boström wrote:
> > ons 2010-03-10 klockan 15:57 -0600 skrev Eric Sandeen:
> > 
> >> There has been a lot of work upstream on 4k sector support, and in general
> >> yes, we are ready.
> > 
> > Problems can probably be expected in case the drive does not report its
> > real block size to the software, though, like my WD15EARS (I think) or
> > VMware's emulated SCSI drives.
> 
> There's only so much we can do in the face of bad hardware ;)

How about making it possible to overwrite the wrong reported values,
e.g. by making /sys/block/sdb/queue/[physical_block_size
writable,minimum_io_size} writable.

Regards
Till

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