[OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do with 4k sector SATA drives... All fixes are for SCSI drives only!!??

[Hans J. Albertsson]

Your counter-question baffles me a bit... but:

Can you point at any part of that wiki page that actually deals with how 
to produce a 4kblocksize pool on a SATA, not a SCSI, drive that is 
actually 4k physical blocksize but reports having 512 bytes blocks.

The trick of editing sd.conf shouldn't work on SATA drives, since 
they're not scsi, and sd.conf deals with SCSI harddisks plus some ATAPI 
CD/DVDs and such..

Or am I missing something?

P.S. I can't just test right now, since the machines are miles away, 
otherwise I would have just plugged the drives in and tested. I'd like 
to know more before spending a couple of hours on a possibly meaningless 
test.



On 2013-03-17 15:48, Jan Owoc wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Hans J. Albertsson
> <hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se> wrote:
>> When I look around in all the various places where the 4k blocksize issue is
>> discussed, it turns out all the advice only ever deals with SCSI or SAS
>> drives.....
> After reading this page [1], what specific further questions do you
> have? The goal is to have that page a catch-all for your kind of
> question.
>
> [1] http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/ZFS+and+Advanced+Format+disks
>
> Cheers,
> Jan
>
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