kern/113837: [geom] unable to access 1024 sector size storage

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Jun 20 21:06:53 UTC 2007


In message: <7182.1182370833 at critter.freebsd.dk>
            "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: In message <200706202015.l5KKFHX1011191 at freefall.freebsd.org>, Mark Linimon wri
: tes:
: 
: >New Synopsis: [geom] unable to access 1024 sector size storage
: 
: Unless somebody broke something, this is certainly not a GEOM bug,
: because GEOM will access any sectorsize >= 512 bytes, and by "any"
: I don't just mean power-of-two sizes.
: 
: Run:
: 	diskinfo -v /dev/da3
: and see what it says.
: 
: If it says anything but 1024 byte sector size, the problem is in
: scsi_da or umass, possibly both.
: 
: If it says 1024 byte sector size, somebody broke GEOM.

I know that GEOM works with 1056 byte sectors for the spi dataflash I
have in my ARM box.  No FS work with that, but that's not GEOM's
fault. :-)

Warner


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