freebsd-hardware Digest, Vol 402, Issue 5

[ambrosehuang ambrose]

2011/4/3 <freebsd-hardware-request at freebsd.org>

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>   1. Re: looking for gigabit network appliances (Lev Serebryakov)
>   2. How to be surea,  that WD20EARS uses native 4Kb sectors and
>      not internal emulation? (Lev Serebryakov)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 18:23:13 +0400
> From: Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: looking for gigabit network appliances
> To: Paul Schenkeveld <freebsd at psconsult.nl>
> Cc: freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <1257427949.20110402182313 at serebryakov.spb.ru>
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> Hello, Paul.
> You wrote 27 марта 2011 г., 17:16:43:
>
> > I've been happily using many Soekris network appliances for almost 10
> > years now but Soekris is not in a big hurry to come with a gigabit
> > platform :(
>  Wait one month more and here will be net6501 :)
>
> --
> // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 18:25:57 +0400
> From: Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: How to be surea,       that WD20EARS uses native 4Kb sectors and
>        not internal emulation?
> To: freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <1556765200.20110402182557 at serebryakov.spb.ru>
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> Hello, Freebsd-hardware.
>
>  WD HDD WD20EARS (Green 2Tb HDD) has "advanced" format -- 4Kb
> sectors -- according to label.
>
>  But output of it detection from ahci.ko and "camcontrol identify"
> doesn't have any traces of it.
>
>  Is here any way to be sure, that drive doesn't use internal emulation
> with offset? No jumpers are set on it.
>
> --
> // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>
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>
> You can  partition your disk not 4K align, then use
>
> dd if=<your not 4k-align partition> of=/dev/null bs=4k count=4096
>
> and compare the result to  same test on 4k-align parition You can
> partition your disk not 4K align, then use
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