On 07/06/2014 08:47 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Sunday, 2014-07-06 at 03:09 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2014-07-06 01:37 (GMT-0400) Anton Aylward composed:
I run this on my recent disks and still get 512.
It may depend on the age of the tool, and what kind of lie the device firmware is providing if it is lying. If the disk was made after 2010, it
Several tools give you this info. Fdisk does, but hdparm -I tells way more.
/dev/sde:
Configuration: Logical max current cylinders 16383 16383 heads 16 16 sectors/track 63 63 -- CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064 LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455 LBA48 user addressable sectors: 3907029168 Logical Sector size: 512 bytes <========= Physical Sector size: 4096 bytes <========= Logical Sector-0 offset: 0 bytes device size with M = 1024*1024: 1907729 MBytes device size with M = 1000*1000: 2000398 MBytes (2000 GB) cache/buffer size = unknown Form Factor: 3.5 inch Nominal Media Rotation Rate: 7200
Yours is bigger than mine but ... /dev/sda: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: WDC WD10EALS-00Z8A0 Serial Number: WD-WCATR4740139 Firmware Revision: 05.01D05 Transport: Serial, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5, SATA Rev 2.6 Standards: Supported: 8 7 6 5 Likely used: 8 Configuration: Logical max current cylinders 16383 16383 heads 16 16 sectors/track 63 63 -- CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064 LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455 LBA48 user addressable sectors: 1953525168 Logical/Physical Sector size: 512 bytes <============ device size with M = 1024*1024: 953869 MBytes device size with M = 1000*1000: 1000204 MBytes (1000 GB) No line about separate physical size
/dev/sda:
Configuration: Logical max current cylinders 16383 16383 heads 16 16 sectors/track 63 63 -- CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064 LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455 LBA48 user addressable sectors: 976773168 Logical/Physical Sector size: 512 bytes <========= device size with M = 1024*1024: 476940 MBytes device size with M = 1000*1000: 500107 MBytes (500 GB) cache/buffer size = 16384 KBytes Nominal Media Rotation Rate: 7200
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
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