On Thursday 08 of January 2015 15:52:17 Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
Hi,
What I have read recently is about a weird issue with layout on external enclosures, regarding the sector size of 512/4096. Apparently when accesing via usb the bridge chipset can lie to the kernel or mkfs.xfs so that it thinks that the disk has 512 byte sectors (this does not affect sector start alignment on 1 MB, it's a different issue).
Thus, to avoid this possible issue, I want to format the disk using SATA directly, which means using my 64 bit desktop machine, not the older 32 bit machine which doesn't have sata, where the disk is going to be used mostly.
I've observed the core issue with two USB to SATA adaptors. The partition table would become mangled if I moved the disk from the internal connector to the adaptor, because the disk was 4kiB/512B and the USB adaptors would report wrong values. -- Regards, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org