[RndTbl] Linux 4K drive formatting

[Adam Thompson]

Oh… and if it’s not just an fdisk problem, you can contact WD support directly for RED drives only:  <http://support.wdc.com/contact/contact.asp?lang=en&ct=wdred> http://support.wdc.com/contact/contact.asp?lang=en&ct=wdred 

 

 

-Adam Thompson

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From: roundtable-bounces at muug.mb.ca [mailto:roundtable-bounces at muug.mb.ca] On Behalf Of Kevin McGregor
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 5:54 PM
To: Continuation of Round Table discussion
Subject: [RndTbl] Linux 4K drive formatting

 

So... I picked up my lovely new WD Red 3 TB drives today and installed them in my home server.

 

Now what? :-)  Specifically, I'm running Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS (2.6.32-45-server #102-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 2 22:53:00 UTC 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux), and I'm wondering if I should upgrade to Precise before I do anything with the drives, or use them as-is. I know I should align the partitions at (at least) 4 KB boundaries, and 10.04 by default uses 1 MB alignment, so I should be okay there.

 

Should I worry that the drive reports

fdisk -l /dev/sdc

 

Disk /dev/sdc: 2199.0 GB, 2199023254528 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 267349 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

 

...instead of 3 TB, and thinks the sector and I/O size is 512 bytes?

 

Advice, please!

 

Kevin

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