[OpenIndiana-discuss] smart command transport

[Eric D. Mudama]

On Wed, Jun 11 at 13:47, jason matthews wrote:
> intel has done something completely stupid. they have changed the
> default sector size on the dc s3700 products from 512 bytes to 4k in
> the latest firmware. IMHO, they should have added the 4k feature but
> left the legacy 512b size as the default.
>
> consequently, i have to rebuild my zpools or touch every new drive
> they ship to make it compatible.

Are you sure?  I'm pretty sure the DC S3700 is best when aligning your
IO on 4K boundaries, but still uses a 512B sector for specifying LBAs.
There's very little industry support for larger sector sizes in SATA.

--eric

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Eric D. Mudama
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