Re: Howto for properly partitioning new drives with 4096 byte sectors (like Western Digital Advanced Format EARS drives)

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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Martin K. Petersen
<martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> "Aleksander" == Aleksander Adamowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> [    2.100108] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC
>> WD15EARS-00Z 80.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
>> [    2.100216] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 2930277168 512-byte logical blocks:
>> (1.50 TB/1.36 TiB)
>
> Here's what I see on a 2.6.32 test box containing a drive from the same
> family as yours (1TB, less cache):
>
> scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC WD10EADS-xxx xx.x PQ: 0
> sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
> sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] 4096-byte physical blocks
>
> What controller are you using?  If it's a SAS or RAID controller,
> chances are that they got their SCSI-ATA translation wrong.  I have
> worked with several vendors to get SAT issues resolved.

It's an ATI SATA controller:

00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA
Controller [IDE mode] (prog-if 01)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device b002
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 32
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22
        Region 0: I/O ports at ff00 [size=8]
        Region 1: I/O ports at fe00 [size=4]
        Region 2: I/O ports at fd00 [size=8]
        Region 3: I/O ports at fc00 [size=4]
        Region 4: I/O ports at fb00 [size=16]
        Region 5: Memory at fe02f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [70] SATA HBA <?>
        Kernel driver in use: ahci


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Best Regards,
  Aleksander Adamowski
  http://olo.org.pl
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