From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nf6gb-0002DW-O0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:08:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50993E09E7; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:08:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.pcorp.com.au (mail2.pcorp.com.au [150.101.72.19]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D50EEE09E7 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:08:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.pcorp.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A19F1107405C for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:38:05 +0930 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail2.pcorp.com.au Received: from mail2.pcorp.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail2.pcorp.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id f0t26eFk35cj; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:38:05 +0930 (CST) Received: from [172.16.0.226] (unknown [172.16.0.226]) by mail2.pcorp.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3211A107405B for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:38:05 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b1002091727l2a6dc25te33e4885fa1c18de@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b1002070827i14f59047k39a695900ebe9889@mail.gmail.com> <201002090348.26292.Warp_7@gmx.de> <201002091810.00578.Warp_7@gmx.de> <201002092213.42109.Warp_7@gmx.de> <5bdc1c8b1002091454y8beb63dp36419259d953c8b5@mail.gmail.com> <1265761896.3193.47.camel@localhost> <5bdc1c8b1002091727l2a6dc25te33e4885fa1c18de@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:36:51 +0930 Message-ID: <1265785611.3225.5.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a052311d-2be6-492e-b52a-144bb6a4647e X-Archives-Hash: 20c694761c710ebc995c283776e3ebd6 On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 17:27 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 14:54 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Frank, > >> As best I can tell so far none of the Linux tools will tell you > >> that the sectors are 4K. I had to go to the WD web site and find the > >> actual drive specs to discover that was true. > > > > however if you use dmesg: > Consider as an alternative "hdparm dash capital eye". Not sure why you spelt it, but tee hach ae en kay ess! I knew there was another way somewhere, but it didn't spring to mind immediately. -- Iain Buchanan Actually, my goal is to have a sandwich named after me.