Justin, >> Attached 2 x brand new Western Digital 8TB USB 3.0 drives awhile back >> and ran some file copy tests and was getting these warnings-- is >> there any way to avoid these warnings? I did confirm with parted >> that the partition was aligned but this appears to be something >> related to the firmware on the device according to [1] and [2]? > sg_vpd_bdc.txt > Block device characteristics VPD page (SBC): > Nominal rotation rate: 5400 rpm > Product type: Not specified > WABEREQ=0 > WACEREQ=0 > Nominal form factor: 3.5 inch > ZONED=0 Damien: What can we do to limit the messages in cases like this? Would it make sense to make the residual warning conditional on sd_is_zoned()? -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
