Re: Beating a dead horse

[Felix Deichmann <m4j0rd0m0%gmail.com@localhost>]

Am 24.11.2015 um 15:32 schrieb William A. Mahaffey III:
> Physical sector size: 4096 bytes
                        ^^^^

As Manuel already stated, you have disks with 4K sectors.

> Could you expand a bit further on those tools :-) ?

All I know is from reading about it, it's called "Acronis Alignment
Tool", also available from certain drive manufacturers for free.

> Are they NetBSD ported ?

It comes as a stand-alone ISO image you can boot from when burnt to a
CD/DVD. No port necessary. It will rewrite your disk(s), so can take a 
huge amount of time.

> CLI tools ?

No, it seems to have a graphical UI.

> Work on booted/running drives or need to be invoked before/during
> boot ?

You will have to boot it instead of your favorite OS. :)

The main problem I see is that the tool could be limited to FAT/NTFS, i. 
e. the Windows world, and it will probably not work well with NetBSD's 
concept of disk structuring. But you would have to find out.

You can probably save a lot of time, tries and headache by doing a fresh 
installation of your server with correct alignment and block sizes... :-|

Felix