We just got in a few server-class drives. They're Seagate Constellations, 3TB. I went to partition and format, and did a mklabel gpt in parted.
Ooops. It claims Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B After data sheet that doesn't tell me, and a long wait*, I spoke to a Seagate tech, who agreed that it *is* 4k physical.
This is CentOS 6.2
Anyone know any way to correct this, or if it's a problem if I manually align the partition to sector 64, or 1M?
mark
* Seagate "live chat" announced that it doesn't support my browser (firefox!!!), only IE, Safari, and chrome. I told the tech of my complaint and surprise to his manager.....
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:25 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
We just got in a few server-class drives. They're Seagate Constellations, 3TB. I went to partition and format, and did a mklabel gpt in parted.
Ooops. It claims Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B After data sheet that doesn't tell me, and a long wait*, I spoke to a Seagate tech, who agreed that it *is* 4k physical.
This is CentOS 6.2
Anyone know any way to correct this, or if it's a problem if I manually align the partition to sector 64, or 1M?
I've done a few of these with gparted (using ssh -Y from a host running X). It will align to 2M which should work for anything and it is easy to use.
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