From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 09:06:00 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGV+_JjZ16ZdK9Rxzbt9R1mui81GOfFsCjVJv_NCAyuSMA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw1GPQ5ooEYJRuL0o_wsq8ED+d7WwrK-2cx+rZe-uHmgjg@mail.gmail.com>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 780 bytes --]
On Mar 5, 2012 4:59 AM, "Grant" <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> All my drives says this from fdisk:
>
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>
> So it doesn't matter where the first partition starts?
>
Older BIOSes don't understand that hard disks now can have 4KiB sectors, so
some of the "advanced format" hard disks report a sector size of 512B. But
behind the scenes, the hard disk maps the logical sector to a subsector of
the physical sector.
The only sure fire way to find out if your hard disk uses 4KiB sectors is
to open your computer and eyeball the hard disk. All 4KiB hard disks that I
know of have statements on their surface that tell me so.
Rgds,
[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 981 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-05 2:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-02 2:12 [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook Grant
2012-03-02 8:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-02 20:29 ` Grant
2012-03-02 23:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-02 23:35 ` Grant
2012-03-02 23:05 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-03-02 23:39 ` Grant
2012-03-03 17:50 ` Grant
2012-03-03 18:13 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-03 18:15 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-03 18:22 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-03 18:24 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-03 20:12 ` Joshua Murphy
2012-03-04 20:12 ` Grant
2012-03-04 20:34 ` Alex Schuster
2012-03-05 1:53 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-05 13:40 ` Alex Schuster
2012-03-05 1:58 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-04 20:02 ` Grant
2012-03-04 20:06 ` Grant
2012-03-04 21:09 ` Grant
2012-03-04 21:45 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-04 21:56 ` Grant
2012-03-04 22:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-04 22:36 ` Grant
2012-03-05 2:19 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-05 2:12 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-05 2:06 ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
2012-03-05 21:41 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-05 16:00 ` Alex Schuster
2012-03-05 16:33 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-05 20:17 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-05 21:33 ` Joshua Murphy
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=CAA2qdGV+_JjZ16ZdK9Rxzbt9R1mui81GOfFsCjVJv_NCAyuSMA@mail.gmail.com \
--to=pandu@poluan.info \
--cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox