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[Discuss] Adventures in N40L Land



On 2/14/2012 3:07 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
 > You're referring to the Western Digital "Advance Format" drives? I don't
 > have any direct experience with these, but yeah, I could see that is
 > potentially a problem. I'm not sure if it is something you need to
 > account for at the RAID driver level (it has a default chunk size of
 > 64K, which should be aligned with either block size), the partitioning,
 > or just the file system.

Yeah, them.  I probably could have figured out how to mix the Hitachi 
and WD disks, but I really, really didn't want to fight it out or even 
approach that situation.

-- 
Rich P.



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