Hello, On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
understands what is going on can make sure it is setup properly. There is no formula to convert from cylinders to sectors!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder-head-sector#CHS_to_LBA_mapping
This issue is also affecting newer/larger hard drives. And these without a doubt have 4kb sectors but everything in opensuse shows 512 bytes!
The _drives_ don't tell their real sector sizes! # /sbin/hdparm -I /dev/sdb [..] Model Number: SAMSUNG HD204UI [..] LBA48 user addressable sectors: 3907029168 Logical Sector size: 512 bytes Physical Sector size: 512 bytes This is what the disk tells via the ATA interface. And yes, that is a disk with 4K physical sectors, which is why I partitioned aligned to 4K. There is just no way for Yast or any other tool to know. One could create a database of 4K-disks reporting 512B sectors though. -dnh -- A funny symbol that I can't read has just been input. Continue, and I'll forget that it ever happened. -- a TeX message -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org