Not prepared for 4096 byte sector hard drives?

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Mon Feb 15 17:13:44 UTC 2010


Eric Sandeen wrote:
> I don't know for sure if hdparm shows it; I don't think so.  If you mean:
>
>         -g     Display the drive geometry (cylinders, heads, sectors),  the
>                size (in sectors) of the device, and the starting offset (in
>                sectors) of the device from the beginning of the drive.
>
> then no...

hdparm -I displays many things one of which is the following:

    Logical/Physical Sector size:           512 bytes


More information about the devel mailing list