gpart and sector size

Dimitry Andric dimitry at andric.com
Fri Apr 9 12:15:13 UTC 2010


On 2010-04-09 13:00, Alexey Tarasov wrote:
> /dev/ad4
>     512             # sectorsize
>     1500301910016   # mediasize in bytes (1.4T)
>     2930277168      # mediasize in sectors
>     0               # stripesize
>     0               # stripeoffset
>     2907021         # Cylinders according to firmware.
>     16              # Heads according to firmware.
>     63              # Sectors according to firmware.
>     WD-WMAVU1512579 # Disk ident.
>
> Seems that mav@ commit doesn't work? o_O

No, the problem is that you must use the ada(4) driver instead of ad(4).
The new physical and logical sector support has only been implemented
for the newer AHCI-over-CAM stack.


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