On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> For reasons that are irrelevant to this discussion, we have ended up with a
> number of new workstations with WD Advanced Format "green" 1.5 TByte drives.
> We have been experiencing a number of difficulties that had to do with
> partition boundaries, etc. After a bit of digging, I found:
>
> http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/Problem-with-WD-Advanced-Format-drive-in-LINUX-WD15EARS/td-p/6395
>
> Is anyone using a WD Advanced Format drive with SL 6? We are not and
> probably will/can not use LVM, but rather standard ext 2, 3, or 4
> partitions, included the extended partition model.
>
> If you are using this type of drive, information on the specifics of the
> formatting command(s) and syntax to use these WD drives would be
> appreciated. Any link to a detailed document or URL would be appreciated.
For SSDs but relevant for "regular" disk partition alignment too:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2009/02/aligning-filesystems-ssd%E2%80%99s-erase-block-size
