On Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2010 Khelben Blackstaff wrote: > Nevertheless, you don't have to get them to report 4k to linux. As > long as you align the partitions its fine. As i said in the other > post, newer fdisk doesn't use "DOS compatibility mode" and uses > sectors by default (instead of stupid CHS) with a 1MB alignment, so > every partition will be properly aligned. If you don't dual boot > Windows, you can also use GPT partitioning scheme. Also, from what i > have seen, xfsprogs are quite clever and find most stuff on their > own. I usually mkfs with "-s size=4096" just to be sure. I always do -b size=4096 anyway, so I'm fine here. And I created the partitions starting sector 512, so that should be good also. > Slightly offtopic, there is another "problem" with these drives. They > park the heads every 8 seconds, so they might wear prematurely. You > can change the 8sec timer or disable it with the wdidle3 utility > from this url > http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=609&sid=113&a > mp;lang=en > > If you want to know more about the problem, there are many forums > where you can read about wdidle3 and i also posted about it on my > blog. > http://lordkhelben.wordpress.com/2010/05/15/wd-caviar-green-hard-dis > ks-idle-settings/ Thanks, I did this, and it even worked for my other WDC WD2002FYPS-01U1B0, which was on 12 seconds (the EARS were on 8s as you said), and now all three drives have a 120s delay before parking. That should be sufficient. It didn't work for the VelociRaptor in my PC, just to mention. -- mit freundlichen Grüssen, Michael Monnerie, Ing. BSc it-management Internet Services http://proteger.at [gesprochen: Prot-e-schee] Tel: 0660 / 415 65 31 ****** Aktuelles Radiointerview! ****** http://www.it-podcast.at/aktuelle-sendung.html // Wir haben im Moment zwei Häuser zu verkaufen: // http://zmi.at/langegg/ // http://zmi.at/haus2009/
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