... by the new Western Digital SATA disks with 4k blocksize. As they don't report this fact properly, fdisk happily partitions them starting at a 31.5kB boundary, resulting in unbelievably bad performance.
The solution is here, well, well away from an automated Ubuntu install... http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/Problem-with-WD-Advanced-Format-drive-in-LINUX-WD15EARS/m-p/7573#M369 Thanks WD. I like the concept of your green hardware range, but I don't really think I'll be supporting you any more. I need what little sanity I have left kept intact! Cheers, Steve -- Steve Holdoway <st...@greengecko.co.nz> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: st...@greengecko.co.nz GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0
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