On 25/04/2010 04:18 p.m., Ramiro Morales wrote: > > 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. > [...] > Could this mean WD has changed things so some (newer?) models correctly > report the real physical sector size? More evidence about (some?) WD??EARS-00Z models correctly reporting their physical block size in the 106th word of the reply to the ata identify command. this time from the OpenBSD guys: http://marc.info/?t=127071323300001&r=1&w=2 via http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20100417195756&mode=expanded -- Ramiro Morales ramiro@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://rmorales.net/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
