On 03/06/13 06:01, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 03:34:07AM +0100, MD wrote:
On 01/06/13 15:59, MD wrote:
On 01/06/13 12:56, Kenneth R Westerback wrote:
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 07:38:50AM +0100, MD wrote:
Recently obtained WD7500-BPKT (750g) hard drive that apparently
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Will Advanced Format Just Work(TM)?
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If the drive claims to be using 512-byte sectors, everything should
work but potentially be slow due to the drive compensating for
i/o into the middle of 4K sectors.
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.... Ken
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On installation, fdisk partitioned the drive by default with the
OpenBSD partition starting at...
Physical/LBA (512-byte) sector 64
(oh yes... nudge-nudge wink-wink)...
and subsequent OpenBSD partitions (i.e. logical partitions)
starting on exact multiples of 4096bytes...
JUST BY ACCIDENT!!!
No, that isn't an accident. We moved the default fdisk start 1 sector some
time ago and changed a few thing in disklabel to make this happpen.
-Otto
Erm... The capitals and the "nudge-nudge, wink-wink" was me...
tipping me hat... because I'd got it ;-)
So the change is in the disklabel code
(I'd started to look in fdisk code first).
Thanks for the guidance.
Just sheer class, that. Sheer class, gents.
Mike
