On Dec 25, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Alexander Motin wrote: > Hi. > > Recently WD released first series of ATA disks with increased physical > sector size. It makes writes not matching with 4K blocks inefficient > there. They don't expose this to the OS, though (not by default, anyway), but chop it up into 8 512-byte sectors for compatibility reasons. Just thought I'd point that out - I'm not even sure if you can get them to *not* do the compatibility thing and expose 4k-sized sectors. I'm sure your work is important for other setups, though, as proved. :) Regards, ThomasReceived on Fri Dec 25 2009 - 10:22:31 UTC
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