Re: 4k sector size and WD20EARS

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On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Martin K. Petersen wrote:

For unknown reasons these drive report themselves as 512-byte drives
despite using 4096-byte sectors internally.

It's not unknown, it's for compatibility reasons.

The original poster is well off reading the earlier discussions on linux-raid regarding these drives.

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