Re: Partition alignment for optimal disk I/O

[Andy Ball <ball%grex.org@localhost>]

Hello Lewis,

  JLM> However, Andy Ball's output looked like
     > ===
     > Model: HGST HTS545025A7E380, Rev: GGEOAC90
     > Capacity 250 Gbytes, 488397168 sectors, 512 bytes/sector
     > Physical sector size: 4096 bytes
     >  ===
     > What program displays that kind of information?

That was an excerpt from the output of "atactl wd1 identify".

  JLM> Does the NetBSD installer take this into account when
     > it creates the default MBR partitions and BSD disklabel
     > partitions...

I don't think so but then I never use the defaults.

Regards,
  - Andy Ball