Advanced disk format at WD20EARS: what should "camcontrol identify" show?

Hans Petter Selasky hselasky at c2i.net
Mon Apr 4 13:52:46 UTC 2011


On Monday 04 April 2011 14:57:55 Ivan Voras wrote:
> On 04/04/2011 08:10, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> > Hello, Alexander.

> If you just replace a non-4K drive in a RAID5 with a 4K drive, it is
> very likely that there would be alignment problems with that drive.

Some tools like fdisk don't work, because they cannot read/write 512 bytes on 
a disk with blocksize greater than 512 bytes.

--HPS


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