From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] [RQ:] SATA HD 2+ TB native recommendations
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:43:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5be49ba309edcfc4643bdb14a0fcb61@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51253FBD.9090605@yahoo.fr>
On Wed Feb 20 16:28:48 EST 2013, nbercher@yahoo.fr wrote:
> On 20/02/2013 15:04, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > 4k drives only work in 9atom. and they're not recommended
> > as a boot drive.
>
> Do you mean 4k drives that reports 4k block size or 4k drives that
> report 512B?
i understand the terminology to be
4k drive 4k physical sectors, 4k logical (reported to os) sectors
512e drive 4k physical sectors, 512b logical sectors
> My WD hdd hosts a "Plan 9 from Bell Labs" from Bell Labs, it is a
> WDC WD15EARS-00Z. I'm 99% sure* it is a 4k hdd that reports 512B block
> sizes. And when I installed the system, I did all the partitioning by
> hand to ensure alignment for every Plan 9 partition. It was quite a
> pain.
that should work just fine. it can be pretty slow if ever
alignment gets off. some of these drives have a 1 sector
offset to help older versions of windows, so it's fiddly.
- erik
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-20 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-20 9:37 Peter A. Cejchan
2013-02-20 10:26 ` David du Colombier
2013-02-20 10:45 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2013-02-20 11:22 ` David du Colombier
2013-02-20 13:04 ` dexen deVries
2013-02-20 16:57 ` [9fans] arcnet steve
2013-02-20 17:34 ` Matthew Veety
2013-02-21 6:22 ` lucio
2013-02-21 9:19 ` Steve Simon
2013-02-21 12:54 ` hiro
2013-02-21 14:16 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-02-21 15:09 ` David Leimbach
2013-02-21 17:39 ` lucio
2013-02-21 18:44 ` erik quanstrom
2013-02-21 19:26 ` Jeff Sickel
2013-02-21 19:32 ` Calvin Morrison
2013-02-21 19:39 ` hiro
2013-02-21 19:44 ` Calvin Morrison
2013-02-21 17:36 ` lucio
2013-02-21 21:11 ` steve
2013-02-20 13:44 ` [9fans] [RQ:] SATA HD 2+ TB native recommendations Nicolas Bercher
2013-02-20 14:04 ` erik quanstrom
2013-02-20 21:27 ` Nicolas Bercher
2013-02-20 21:43 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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