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 08:53:49 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGVxGvqL7DCwXnpOa8Arc2-7hF9St2=Le=w0=oOqn7DTsg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120304213447.75fa14c4@weird.wonkology.org>
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On Mar 5, 2012 3:37 AM, "Alex Schuster" <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
>
> Grant writes:
>
> > Just to confirm, starting at block 2048 is OK?
>
> Yes, if it's divisible by 8, it's okay. That's because 512 * 8 = 4096, so
> every 8th 512-byte block starts on a 4096 block boundary.
>
> Now I have a related question: My new seagate Barracuda
> Green 2TB ST2000DL003-9VT166 drive has 4096 bytes per sector, but uses
> something that is called SmartAlign(TM) [*]. Seagate says that there are
> no performance impacts even when the partitions are misaligned. This
> would be good, because I completely forgot about this when creating
> partitions, and I would like to keep it as it is now. Has anyone heard
> about this? Can I trust Seagate that what they say is correct?
>
> [*] www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/de.../mb6101_smartalign_technology_faq.pdf
>
> Wonko
>
Your URL got munged there, I can't download the pdf.
Rgds,
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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 [this message]
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
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
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