mo...@rodents-montreal.org (Mouse) writes: >>> These disks lie about their actual sector size. >> These disks just follow their specification.
>That's as meaningless as...on, to pick an unreasonably extreme example, >a hitman saying "I was just following orders". Apparently as meaningless saying "lies about". >> They also report the true sector size. >Not according to the documentation, at least not in the one case I >investigated. The documentation flat-out says the sector size is 4K, >but the disk claims to have half-K sectors. >The problem is that there are two sizes here, That's why the disk has multiple attributes that it can report. >Neither. The sector size claimed to the host should equal both the >sector size on the media and the granularity of the interface. Apparently that doesn't work out :) >Anything else is IMO a bug in the drive and should be treated as such, >which in NetBSD's case I would say means a quirk entry, documented as >being a workaround for broken hardware, for it. Believing the drive that it has standard sector sizes works fine. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."