Overriding sector size on disks?

[Steven Hartland]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian at freebsd.org>
To: "freebsd-current" <freebsd-current at freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2013 2:45 AM
Subject: Overriding sector size on disks?


> Hi!
> 
> I have an odd problem. That, honestly, can't be that odd.
> 
> I have a bunch of SATA disks that when plugged into the laptop
> directly, show up as 512 byte sectors. But if I plug it in via this
> iomega USB caddy, they show up as 4k sector devices.
> 
> Because of this, partitions just plainly don't work.
> 
> Has anyone faced this? Is there some trick to do to get these things
> to go back to being 512 byte sector devices so one can use them?
> 
> Similarly, because they show up as 512 byte sector devices on
> macosx/linux, they can read/write NTFS/MSDOS partitions on the thing.
> But if I plug it into freebsd, it shows up as a 4k sector device and
> things plainly don't work.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> -adrian
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