Support for WD Advanced Format disks

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Ilya Bakulin <webmaster at kibab.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > Why did you shift the gnop?  Did you short jumper 7-8?
> No, 7-8 remained as-is. ad7p1 was created using:
> #gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -s 10G -b 63 ad7 
>
> So it begins at sector #63, but physical 4096-block begins at logical
> sector 64. That's why I shifted gnop by 1 sector.

Why aren't you using the whole disk?

> > Yes.  WD Green disks suck.
> Is it a problem of WD Green or it is common to all 4096-sector models?

WD Green, even their non-AF disks (like the WD20EADS I tested) suck.

DES
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