Lisi Reisz wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Grześ Andruszkiewicz wrote: > > > Does the Debian installer work out of the box for SSDs? > > > > Wheezy 7.0, yes. Squeeze 6.0, no. > > Sorry, Bob, but I disagree. I could be wrong. :-) The part in particular I am thinking of is the installer partitioning the SSD disk. I didn't think the Squeeze installer did 4k byte alignment. I thought it did only 512 byte alignment. If the partitions are not aligned then performance will suffer. Since as far as I know all SSD devices use 4k alignments. > I installed Squeeze on an SSD both four months ago on my own new box > and last weekend on my husband's, both times with no issues at all > that were due to the SSD. I run Squeeze just fine on my SSD too. But I recall that I needed to force the alignment prior to installing. Could you check your disk alignment? # sfdisk -d /dev/sda Bad (for SSDs, okay for spinning disks): /dev/sda1 : start= 63, size= 995967, Id=83 Good: /dev/sda1 : start= 2048, size= 997376, Id=83 If it says 2048 and you didn't do anything to force it then I am wrong and Squeeze supports it okay. And thank you for correcting me. :-) I had remembered needing to force the alignment. But maybe that was in the previous release and I am simply confusing the two. I am sure that the Wheezy 7.0 installer sets up the alignment properly. > The only "problem" was that I do net installs, and there was a > driver issue with the ethernet card on the newer box. But that is a > motherboard problem, not an SSD one. > > I did not install Gnome, which may, of course, be relevant. I agree that neither of those is relevant. Bob
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