Not prepared for 4096 byte sector hard drives?

Ric Wheeler rwheeler at redhat.com
Mon Feb 15 19:47:49 UTC 2010


On 02/15/2010 12:13 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> 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

I haven't tried hdparm on any of these drives. Mark Lord might be ahead of the 
game as usual though :-)

Mark, have you updated hdparm to display the new alignment info, etc?

Ric



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