On Wed Feb 20 16:28:48 EST 2013, nberc...@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
