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 1Nf6YZ-0000FP-1A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:00:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E349E0999; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:59:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.7]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB196E0999 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:59:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.23.170.147] (helo=anti-virus03-10) by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Nf6Xz-0004ho-1f for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:59:39 +0000 Received: from [94.172.79.125] (helo=ep.mine.nu) by asmtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Nf6Xy-0004S0-HG for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:59:38 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (apollo [192.168.1.102]) (Authenticated sender: neil) by ep.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7A31A20A001 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:59:38 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4B72595A.6050204@ep.mine.nu> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:59:38 +0000 From: Neil Walker User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091023) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far References: <5bdc1c8b1002070827i14f59047k39a695900ebe9889@mail.gmail.com> <20100209154340.11d2ea18@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4B71A37B.1020001@ep.mine.nu> <201002092037.38105.joost@antarean.org> <1265759566.3193.43.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1265759566.3193.43.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f743290e-5077-4e1f-8bbb-5b5921de9463 X-Archives-Hash: 9a3b8f604e6a3081c03da829422bee45 Iain Buchanan wrote: > I'm starting to stray OT here, but I'm considering a second-hand Adaptec > 2420SA - this is real hardware raid right? > It's a PCI-X card (not PCI-E). Are you sure that's right for your system? > If I'm buying drives in the 1Tb size - does this 4k issue affect > hardware RAID and how do you get around it? (Never set up a HW RAID > card before) > You would need to check with Adaptec. The latest BIOS is 2 years old so it may not support the latest drives. Be lucky, Neil