Michael Monnerie put forth on 7/20/2010 1:58 PM: > Dear list, I don't know who else to ask this: > > I recently bought 2 new 4k sector drives (WD Caviar Green 2TB, > WD20EARS), but Linux kernel 2.6.34.1 still says: > > # blockdev --getss /dev/sdd > 512 > > Shouldn't that be 4096? Where is the problem? Firmware sector size translation is the problem. The WD20EARS is apparently not a native 4096K sector size drive, but a transitional product. It is 4k sector size internally but the firmware translates this to 512B sectors to the OS driver. It's a hybrid. Google "WD20EARS sector size" -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
