Re: tools support for non-512 byte sector sizes

[Martin K. Petersen]

>>>>> "James" == James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

James> The problem, which ata_ram also suffers, is that the tools we
James> most need to test are the ones for manipulating non volatile
James> characteristics (like partition tables).  We'd really like the
James> disk contents to survive reboot for this ...

Yeah, I should add that I wanted persistence too.  I went through a
whole stack (well, 5-6 or so) fibre channel drives from various
vendors and attempted to low-level format them to 4KB sectors.  Most
of them laughed in my face.  One of them tried to comply and
irreparably confused its firmware in the process.

Just yesterday I received a couple of prototype drives in the mail.
I'll ask the vendor whether they support 4KB and if so I'll give them
a whirl.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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