Felix Miata wrote:
On 2006/12/07 11:42 (GMT-0800) Randall R Schulz apparently typed:
I am curious if there are any magnetic drives in common use today (say,
IDE-, SATA -, SCSI-, FireWire- or USB-connected and 15,000 RPM or less)
whose native sector size is anything other than 512 bytes?
I bought a couple of SCSI disks claimed to be "good" off eBay several
years ago. All the partitioning software I tried on them complained they
were unusable. Turned out LLF was required to convert them from 520
(IIRC) btye sectors used by Unix System 5 to standard 512 bytes sectors
in order for me to use them.
I believe NetApp used 520 bytes for a while to facilitate block
checksums. Also, I think both IBM AS/400 and iSeries use 520 bytes. I
think EMC Clariion uses 520 bytes too, but I am not sure if it has to be.
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Geir A. Myrestrand
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