So my guess is that your EARS drive has 4KB sectors, but is lying about that fact to linux. It may be there is a jumper that will at least get it to tell the truth to hdparm. Solving that is your first step.
The trouble is you already have a filesystem with valid data on there. Getting hdparm to see the real physical sector size just means the NEXT time you partition the drive the partitions will be aligned with the physical sectors, but until then you are screwed.
I don't mind formatting the drive. All of my data is backed up. So, what is your suggestion.
FYI: there should be a jumper that sets the 4KB sector alignment between 1MB aligned and sector 63 aligned. DON'T change that jumper unless you are ready to re-partition and re-format. It has the effect of moving all of your data by a couple sectors. Which means your current filesystems will quit working.
If it were me, I'd get another new drive and replace the EARS one.
Well, I have 3.5 TB + another 2TB so, I won't be buying another HDD any soon. However, I am thinking of getting SDD for OS. But that will be later and not now (burned a lot of money on a DSLR this Xmas ;-), so I am willing to spend sometime in fixing it, if possible. If
you want to get another EARS drive, then make sure you have the jumpers set right before you do any partitioning. Then move your filesystems from the old, likely misaligned drive, to the new, hopefully properly aligned, one.
I can format this drive if that solves the problem. Swapnil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org