[plug] WD-EARS 2TB drives and linux?

[Daniel Pittman]

Michael Holland <michael.holland at gmail.com> writes:

> After repartitioning an external 1TB WD green drive with Linux, I got
> incredibly slow write times in Linux.  I think the USB interface faked it as
> 512B sectors (for compatibility with older versions of windows?), though the
> drive was really 4K.

No, the *disk* reports 512 byte sectors, despite being 4K internally.  If you
connect directly to SATA you still see the same details.

Which is probably good, since the most current kernel release from Linus is
the first to feature 4K sector support in the SATA layer, as I understand it.

        Daniel

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