On 11-05-18 06:43 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/15/2011 10:54 PM, Mark Lord wrote: >> I picked up my third WD 2TB "Green" drive today, >> and lo and behold.. the firmware (51.0AB51) actually >> reports the real physical sector size (finally!). > >> Logical Sector size: 512 bytes >> Physical Sector size: 4096 bytes > > What is the positive significance of this change? What does this > materially change for the better? Filesystems in the kernel can auto-align themselves for performance, and I noticed that "fdisk" saw the 4KB sector size and adjusted itself to put sector-1 at offset 64 instead of offset 63, saving me the trouble. -ml -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
