[OpenIndiana-discuss] smart command transport

[Eric D. Mudama]

On Wed, Jun 11 at 16:35, Eric D. Mudama wrote:
>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.

BTW, what firmware, exactly, are you running on that drive?

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Eric D. Mudama
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