On Nov 1, 2013, at 9:45 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi! > > I have an odd problem. That, honestly, can't be that odd. > > I have a bunch of SATA disks that when plugged into the laptop > directly, show up as 512 byte sectors. But if I plug it in via this > iomega USB caddy, they show up as 4k sector devices. > > Because of this, partitions just plainly don't work. > > Has anyone faced this? Is there some trick to do to get these things > to go back to being 512 byte sector devices so one can use them? > > Similarly, because they show up as 512 byte sector devices on > macosx/linux, they can read/write NTFS/MSDOS partitions on the thing. > But if I plug it into freebsd, it shows up as a 4k sector device and > things plainly don't work. > > Thanks! > > My coworker ran into this once. We couldn’t find a workaround. We just noted that we either had to use the disk with the adapter or without — you cannot swap between and expect to read your data.Received on Sat Nov 02 2013 - 15:12:09 UTC
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