On Sun, Jan 24, 2010, Aleksander Adamowski wrote
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Aleksander Adamowski
>> My drive seems to prove their article wrong :(
> Looks like I'm not the only one being disappointed:
>
http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/Problem-with-WD-Advanced-Format-drive-in-LINUX-WD15EARS/m-p/7452
Strangely enough, an user that posted to that same forum topic a
couple of months ago seems to report a drive similar to yours (WDC
WD15EARS-00Z5B1, firmware rev. 80.00A80) is correctly reporting a
physical block size of 4KB:
http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/Problem-with-WD-Advanced-Format-drive-in-LINUX-WD15EARS/m-p/10739#M613
hdparm -I /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
ATA device, with non-removable media
Model Number: WDC WD15EARS-00Z5B1
Serial Number: WD-WMAVUxxxxxxx
Firmware Revision: 80.00A80
[...]
Configuration:
[...]
Logical Sector size: 512 bytes
Physical Sector size: 4096 bytes
[...]
Unfortunately he doesn't report what version of hdparm he is using,
his kernel version is 2.6.32-8.
I commented about that on a further post to that thread, comparing it to
what I see with a 1 TB EARS drive:
http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/Problem-with-WD-Advanced-Format-drive-in-LINUX-WD15EARS/m-p/20675#M1245
Could this mean WD has changed things so some (newer?) models correctly
report the real physical sector size?
Regards,
--
Ramiro
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