gpart and sector size

Andriy Gapon avg at icyb.net.ua
Fri Apr 9 11:41:12 UTC 2010


on 09/04/2010 14:33 Alexey Tarasov said the following:
> On 09.04.2010, at 15:32, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 
>> on 09/04/2010 14:27 Alexey Tarasov said the following:
>>>> Or the disk doesn't actually report 4096 anywhere anyhow...  Have you
>>>> considered that?  If yes, can you verify using any tools of any OS that the
>>>> disk reports 4K in any way?
>>> In the previous discussion we found that the disk reports 512 sector size, but
>>> there are additional ATA commands to determine if it has real sector size
>>> larger than 4k. I will try to confirm this.
>> Thank you.  I think that this would be an interesting detail.
>>
> 
> Here is the reference:
> 
> http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/WhitePapers/ENG/2579-771430.pdf

I saw it, but I want to see what's reported in reality.

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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