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On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 14:54 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > When I use parted on the drives, it says (both the old external and my 2 |
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> > months old internal): |
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> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B |
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> > So no speedup for me then. :-/ |
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so does mine :) |
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> Frank, |
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> As best I can tell so far none of the Linux tools will tell you |
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> that the sectors are 4K. I had to go to the WD web site and find the |
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> actual drive specs to discover that was true. |
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however if you use dmesg: |
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$ dmesg | grep ata |
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ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 irq_stat 0x00400040, connection status changed |
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irq 17 |
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ata2: DUMMY |
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ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf6ffb800 port 0xf6ffba00 irq 17 |
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ioatdma: Intel(R) QuickData Technology Driver 4.00 |
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ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) |
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ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) |
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ata1.00: ATA-7: ST9160823ASG, 3.ADD, max UDMA/133 |
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ata1.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 8: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) |
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you can look up your drive model number (in my case ST9160823ASG) and |
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find out the details. (That's a Seagate Momentus 160Gb with actual 512 |
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byte sectors). |
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saves having to open up your laptop / pc if you didn't order the drive |
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separately or you've forgotten. |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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polygon: |
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Dead parrot. |
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