I took the drive out and partitioned it on windows 7 64bit.

Now parted crashes:

# parted /dev/sdb GNU Parted 2.1 Using /dev/sdb Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) print Error: Invalid argument during seek for read on /dev/sdb Retry/Ignore/Cancel? i Error: The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used. OK/Cancel? ok Backtrace has 8 calls on stack: 8: /lib64/libparted-2.1.so.0(ped_assert+0x31) [0x3646812151] 7: /lib64/libparted-2.1.so.0() [0x3646842b2d] 6: /lib64/libparted-2.1.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x75) [0x3646819305] 5: parted() [0x40692c] 4: parted(interactive_mode+0xf3) [0x40da93] 3: parted(main+0x8f) [0x40aacf] 2: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x364501ed1d] 1: parted() [0x404f49]

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and the following history of commands you entered. Also include any additional information about your setup you consider important.

Assertion (last_usable <= disk->dev->length) at gpt.c:733 in function _parse_header() failed.

Aborted (core dumped)

Building the latest (parted-3.0.tar.gz md5:a94e84a9b9944715c4453f82ccc639bf sha1:6e8f7a2b042ba6222e8ea245a05136669fccec7f)

root@five-72 /tmp/parted-3.0/parted # ./parted /dev/sdb GNU Parted 3.0 Using /dev/sdb Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) print Error: Invalid argument during seek for read on /dev/sdb Retry/Ignore/Cancel? i Error: The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used. OK/Cancel? ok Backtrace has 8 calls on stack: 8: /tmp/parted-3.0/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.1(ped_assert+0x31) [0x7f533a46a8c1] 7: /tmp/parted-3.0/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.1(+0x24cdd) [0x7f533a482cdd] 6: /tmp/parted-3.0/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.1(ped_disk_new+0x75) [0x7f533a470c95] 5: /tmp/parted-3.0/parted/.libs/lt-parted() [0x405d59] 4: /tmp/parted-3.0/parted/.libs/lt-parted(interactive_mode+0xf3) [0x40b8d3] 3: /tmp/parted-3.0/parted/.libs/lt-parted(main+0xd9f) [0x407e7f] 2: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x364501ed1d] 1: /tmp/parted-3.0/parted/.libs/lt-parted() [0x404b09]

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Assertion (last_usable <= disk->dev->length) at gpt.c:727 in function _parse_header() failed.

Aborted (core dumped)

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jason Pyeron Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 17:22 To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: Re: [CentOS] 3TB non-system disk reports wrong size on Centos 6x86_64

hdparm reports 4096.... (reading http://karelzak.blogspot.com/2010/05/4096-byte-sector-hard-dri

ves.html)

Now I am really going nuts.

root@five-72 ~ # cat /sys/block/sdb/queue/physical_block_size 512

root@five-72 ~ # cat /sys/block/sdb/queue/logical_block_size 512

root@five-72 ~ # cat /sys/block/sdb/queue/optimal_io_size 0

root@five-72 ~ # uname -a Linux five-72.internal.pdinc.us 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 25 19:59:55 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linuxroot@five-72 ~

root@five-72 ~ # hdparm -I /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb:

ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: ST3000DM001-1CH166 Serial Number: W1F2TPQT Firmware Revision: CC26 Transport: Serial, SATA Rev 3.0 Standards: Used: unknown (minor revision code 0x0029) Supported: 8 7 6 5 Likely used: 8 Configuration: Logical max current cylinders 16383 16383 heads 16 16 sectors/track 63 63 -- CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064 LBA user addressable sectors: 268435455 LBA48 user addressable sectors: 5860533168 Logical Sector size: 512 bytes Physical Sector size: 4096 bytes Logical Sector-0 offset: 0 bytes device size with M = 1024*1024: 2861588 MBytes device size with M = 1000*1000: 3000592 MBytes (3000 GB) cache/buffer size = unknown Form Factor: 3.5 inch Nominal Media Rotation Rate: 7200 Capabilities: LBA, IORDY(can be disabled) Queue depth: 32 Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = ? Advanced power management level: 128 Recommended acoustic management value: 208, current value: 0 DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns Commands/features: Enabled Supported: * SMART feature set Security Mode feature set * Power Management feature set * Write cache * Look-ahead * Host Protected Area feature set * WRITE_BUFFER command * READ_BUFFER command * DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE * Advanced Power Management feature set SET_MAX security extension * 48-bit Address feature set * Device Configuration Overlay feature set * Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE * FLUSH_CACHE_EXT * SMART error logging * SMART self-test * General Purpose Logging feature set * WRITE_{DMA|MULTIPLE}_FUA_EXT * 64-bit World wide name Write-Read-Verify feature set * WRITE_UNCORRECTABLE_EXT command * {READ,WRITE}_DMA_EXT_GPL commands * Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE * Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s) * Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s) * Gen3 signaling speed (6.0Gb/s) * Native Command Queueing (NCQ) * Phy event counters * unknown 76[15] DMA Setup Auto-Activate optimization Device-initiated interface power management * Software settings preservation * SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set * SCT Write Same (AC2) unknown 206[7] unknown 206[12] (vendor specific) unknown 206[13] (vendor specific) Security: Master password revision code = 65534 supported not enabled not locked not frozen not expired: security count supported: enhanced erase 318min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 318min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT. Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 5000c50061172c81 NAA : 5 IEEE OUI : 000c50 Unique ID : 061172c81 Checksum: correct

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-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jason Pyeron Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 16:47 To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: [CentOS] 3TB non-system disk reports wrong size on Centos 6 x86_64

root@five-72 ~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 8.67101 s, 121 MB/s

root@five-72 ~ # parted /dev/sdb GNU Parted 2.1 Using /dev/sdb Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) mklabel gpt (parted) print Model: ATA ST3000DM001-1CH1 (scsi) --> http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/bar racuda-ds1737-1-11 11us.pdf Disk /dev/sdb: 2199GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

(parted) q Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.

root@five-72 ~ # cat /sys/block/sdb/queue/physical_block_size 512

But the drive says 4k sector size!

What am I doing wrong?

-Jason

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