Sector size of 4096 bytes (not 512)

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Tue Aug 26 11:06:34 UTC 2008


"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> [to install on a disk with 4096-byte sectors]
> In the disk menu where you create filesystems, you will need to use the
> set the newfs arguments (is it 'N' in the menu ?) to
> 	-b 32768 -f 4096

Doesn't newfs figure this out on its own, based on the parameters
reported by ata / cam?

DES
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