Re: gpart and sector size

> No, the problem is that you must use the ada(4) driver instead of ad(4).
> The new physical and logical sector support has only been implemented
> for the newer AHCI-over-CAM stack.

pass0: Raw identify data:
   0: 427a 3fff c837 0010 0000 0000 003f 0000 
   8: 0000 0000 2020 2020 2057 442d 574d 4156 
  16: 5531 3531 3235 3739 0000 0000 0032 3830 
  24: 2e30 3041 3830 5744 4320 5744 3135 4541 
  32: 5253 2d30 305a 3542 3120 2020 2020 2020 
  40: 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 8010 
  48: 0000 2f00 4001 0000 0000 0007 3fff 0010 
  56: 003f fc10 00fb 0110 ffff 0fff 0000 0007 
  64: 0003 0078 0078 0078 0078 0000 0000 0000 
  72: 0000 0000 0000 001f 1706 0000 0044 0040 
  80: 01fe 0000 746b 7f61 4123 7469 bc41 4123 
  88: 407f 00ab 00ab 0000 fffe 0000 80fe 0000 
  96: 0000 0000 0000 0000 7b30 aea8 0000 0000 
 104: 0000 0000 0000 0000 5001 4ee0 5743 482f 
 112: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 4018 
 120: 4018 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 
 128: 0021 0000 0000 0000 0000 16db 0000 0000 
 136: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0004 0000 
 144: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 
 152: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 
 160: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 
 168: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 
 176: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 
 184: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 
 192: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 
 200: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 3031 0000 
 208: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 
 216: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 101e 0000 
 224: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 
 232: 0000 0000 0001 1000 0000 0000 0000 0000 
 240: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 
 248: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 3aa5 
pass0: <WDC WD15EARS-00Z5B1 80.00A80> ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
pass0: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)

protocol              ATA/ATAPI-8 SATA 2.x
device model          WDC WD15EARS-00Z5B1
firmware revision     80.00A80
serial number         WD-WMAVU1512579
WWN                   50014ee05743482f
cylinders             16383
heads                 16
sectors/track         63
sector size           logical 512, physical 512, offset 0
LBA supported         268435455 sectors
LBA48 supported       2930277168 sectors
PIO supported         PIO4
DMA supported         WDMA2 UDMA6 

Feature                      Support  Enable    Value           Vendor
read ahead                     yes      yes
write cache                    yes      yes
flush cache                    yes      yes
overlap                        no
Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ)   no       no
Native Command Queuing (NCQ)   yes              32 tags
SMART                          yes      yes
microcode download             yes      yes
security                       yes      no
power management               yes      yes
advanced power management      no       no      0/0x00
automatic acoustic management  yes      no      254/0xFE        128/0x80
media status notification      no       no
power-up in Standby            yes      no
write-read-verify              no       no      0/0x0
unload                         no       no
free-fall                      no       no
data set management (TRIM)     no

Seems that the only possible way to use this disks is adding permanent (not like gnop) sector size emulation to some part of GEOM.

--
Alexey Tarasov

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