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 8:13 PM, Martin K. Petersen
<martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok, let's try getting it straight from the horse's mouth.  Please grab a
> recent hdparm (http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/) and run:
>
> # ./hdparm -I /dev/sdb | grep Sector
>         Logical  Sector size:                   512 bytes
>         Physical Sector size:                  4096 bytes
>         Logical Sector-0 offset:                  0 bytes
>
> --
> Martin K. Petersen      Oracle Linux Engineering


# /opt/hdparm-9.27/hdparm -I /dev/sdb | grep -i sector
        sectors/track   63      63
        CHS current addressable sectors:   16514064
        LBA    user addressable sectors:  268435455
        LBA48  user addressable sectors: 2930277168
        Logical/Physical Sector size:           512 bytes
        R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16  Current = 16


Do I have some cut down version  WD EARS series drive?



Here's the full output from hdparm -I:

/dev/sdb:

ATA device, with non-removable media
        Model Number:       WDC WD15EARS-00Z5B1
        Serial Number:      WD-WMAVU1335171
        Firmware Revision:  80.00A80
        Transport:          Serial, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions,
SATA Rev 2.5, SATA Rev 2.6
Standards:
        Supported: 8 7 6 5
        Likely used: 8
Configuration:
        Logical         max     current
        cylinders       16383   16383
        heads           16      16
        sectors/track   63      63
        --
        CHS current addressable sectors:   16514064
        LBA    user addressable sectors:  268435455
        LBA48  user addressable sectors: 2930277168
        Logical/Physical Sector size:           512 bytes
        device size with M = 1024*1024:     1430799 MBytes
        device size with M = 1000*1000:     1500301 MBytes (1500 GB)
        cache/buffer size  = unknown
Capabilities:
        LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
        Queue depth: 32
        Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, with device specific minimum
        R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16  Current = 16
        Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value: 254
        DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
             Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
        PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
             Cycle time: no flow control=120ns  IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
        Enabled Supported:
           *    SMART feature set
                Security Mode feature set
           *    Power Management feature set
           *    Write cache
           *    Look-ahead
           *    Host Protected Area feature set
           *    WRITE_BUFFER command
           *    READ_BUFFER command
           *    NOP cmd
           *    DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
                Power-Up In Standby feature set
           *    SET_FEATURES required to spinup after power up
                SET_MAX security extension
                Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
           *    48-bit Address feature set
           *    Device Configuration Overlay feature set
           *    Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
           *    FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
           *    SMART error logging
           *    SMART self-test
           *    General Purpose Logging feature set
           *    64-bit World wide name
           *    {READ,WRITE}_DMA_EXT_GPL commands
           *    Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
           *    Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
           *    Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s)
           *    Native Command Queueing (NCQ)
           *    Host-initiated interface power management
           *    Phy event counters
           *    NCQ priority information
           *    DMA Setup Auto-Activate optimization
           *    Software settings preservation
           *    SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set
           *    SCT Features Control (AC4)
           *    SCT Data Tables (AC5)
                unknown 206[12] (vendor specific)
                unknown 206[13] (vendor specific)
Security:
        Master password revision code = 65534
                supported
        not     enabled
        not     locked
        not     frozen
        not     expired: security count
                supported: enhanced erase
        330min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 330min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT.
Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 50014ee057338cb5
        NAA             : 5
        IEEE OUI        : 0014ee
        Unique ID       : 057338cb5
Checksum: correct




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  Aleksander Adamowski
  http://olo.org.pl
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