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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:31:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <df007707aa25b94092ccd79c06d75e79@hamnavoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEaiYYzRuD1vTjwpzf3o8PhA8WExkzL44V6fkauc1itqXiq1-Q@mail.gmail.com>

> inquiry WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0
> ...
> The new drive is completely blank. It has 4096 byte sector size, and
> disk/mbr fails.
>
> su# disk/mbr -m /386/mbr /dev/sdE1/data
> mbr: secsize 4096 invalid

Interesting.  I have a WD10EARS which lies about its sector size - it
reports 512 although it's really 4096.  On that drive disk/mbr works
as normal, but after fdisk and prep I had to readjust some partitions
by hand because the "cylinder" size is 255*63*512, not a multiple of
4096.  Plan 9 fdisk aligns things to a "cylinder" boundary, but the
partitions need to be aligned to a multiple of 8 512-byte sectors from
the beginning of the disk, or else every write would require a
read-modify-write cycle.

I suspect disk/mbr isn't the only place in Plan 9 where sector size
is assumed to be 512.  Has anyone else had experience with these
"advanced format" drives?




  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-30  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-24  0:20 slash
2011-09-24  8:07 ` David du Colombier
2011-09-24  8:34   ` Steve Simon
2011-09-29 23:54   ` slash
2011-09-30  8:31     ` Richard Miller [this message]
2011-09-30  8:54       ` Richard Miller
2011-09-30  9:44         ` Charles Forsyth
2011-09-30 14:06           ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-30 14:16           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-30 14:00         ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-01 10:36           ` slash
     [not found]           ` <CAEaiYYzXCfB2KbnDzBHTXytrfQqGUCepRg5Aj-c14ZoEz5hHaw@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-01 13:51             ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-01 15:27               ` slash
2011-10-01 16:14             ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-01 16:23               ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 11:28                 ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 11:52                   ` Charles Forsyth
2011-10-04 12:01                     ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 12:05                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 12:09                       ` Charles Forsyth
2011-10-04 12:13                         ` Charles Forsyth
2011-10-04 12:19                           ` dexen deVries
2011-10-04 12:27                           ` Richard Miller
     [not found]                       ` <CAOw7k5i3i+w_=pUuFjUCnxH1Tp5U0vh3v7wFUoBddfML9xG+ag@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-04 12:17                         ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 12:30                           ` Charles Forsyth
     [not found]                           ` <CAOw7k5hGWG16a5fTjtXBEBd2-gt=XnhjEJKFNjdPrB46_6=dBg@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-04 12:34                             ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 12:05                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 12:15                     ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 12:17                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 12:17                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 12:33                     ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 12:52                       ` dexen deVries
2011-10-04 13:05                         ` dexen deVries
2011-10-04 14:13                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 15:56                         ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 16:00                           ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 16:42                             ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 16:45                               ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 17:52                                 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-10-04 18:05                                   ` dexen deVries
2011-10-04 18:24                                 ` Bakul Shah
2011-10-04 18:29                                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-03 23:07               ` slash
2011-10-06  7:35                 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-10-07 10:49                   ` slash
2011-10-07 11:15                     ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-10-07 13:03                       ` Steve Simon
2011-10-10 10:32                         ` Peter A. Cejchan
     [not found]                   ` <CAEaiYYya5eq3CoVbbZGqPf91_kMEcbkCQ_8WEL4yakFdenek5g@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-07 13:17                     ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-10  2:32                       ` slash
     [not found]                       ` <CAEaiYYy36ydHfw=Tg2YC9x9gEW7=MAHF2C6-UVbgr36G-qv=rA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-10  3:11                         ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-10 10:15                           ` slash
     [not found]                         ` <d0c02b8a1e36c9329902a1183192d732@chula.quanstro.>
     [not found]                           ` <CAEaiYYxoHLgMZddGZ4gCPvW-GuqwRYzytXgfezoi+vjUgxx9tg@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-10 13:17                             ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-11  8:51                               ` slash
2011-10-11  8:55                                 ` slash
2011-10-11 15:01                                 ` slash
2011-10-11 15:36                                   ` David du Colombier
2011-10-12 19:24                                     ` slash
2011-10-13  7:07                   ` Peter A. Cejchan
     [not found]               ` <CAEaiYYxsUzf70Ffhd3hzsBZcMb5=2yhfSCv5-nJ+_27wYbJKig@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-03 23:10                 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04  0:02                 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04  7:58                   ` dexen deVries
2011-10-04  9:52               ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04  9:34           ` Richard Miller
2011-10-07  7:47       ` [9fans] io patterns erik quanstrom
2011-09-24  8:30 ` [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk Steve Simon

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