Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 schrieb Willie Wong:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 01:48:01AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > Sorry if I reheat a topic that some already consider closed. I used the
> > weekend to experiment on that stuff and need to report my results.
> > Because they startle me a little.
> > [...]
> Instead of guessing using this rather imprecise metric, why not just
> look up the serial number of your drive and see what the physical
> sector size is?

Well, at differences of 50%, precision is of no relevance anymore.
Also, I already did look it up and it didn’t turn up any conclusive results. 
Just search hits from fdisk output of people who are partitioning the drive. 
So the only thing I can think of yet is to call Samsung’s expensive hotline. 
Hm... oh well, perhaps I could write an e-mail, because I’m too niggard and 
phonophobe to make a call. ^^

> If you don't want to open your box, you can usually 
> get the information from dmesg.

I put the drive in myself after I bought it at
http://www.alternate.de/html/product/Festplatten_2,5_Zoll_SATA/Samsung/HM500JI_500_GB/342736/?showTecData=true
But they don’t show much information either. :-/
I don’t suppose it’s written on the disk’s label? I don’t wanna loosen those 
screws too often, because the windings tend to wear out quickly.
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