Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail
On Wednesday 21 January 2015 13:18:25 Bob Proulx did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Andrew M.A. Cater did opine
> >
> > > The wheezy installer _ought_ to work with a 4K disk - fdisk will
> > > normally work - but ...
> >
> > It will work, poorly, giving ass-aligned disk that will be slow, or
> > slower.
>
> You seem to believe that the Wheezy debian-installer does not handle
> the new Advanced Format 4k sectors. However I use it all of the time
> with 4k sectors and it works fine. There is no known problem using
> the Wheezy debian-installer to install onto AF 4k sector devices.
>
> Sorry but I believe you are mistaken on this issue. If you find the
> debian-install mishandling 4k sector devices please file a bug report
> with sufficient information to debug the problem.
>
> Bob
Go ahead and install its way, then run an fdisk -l and read the result,
confirmed by quite slow readings from hdparm -tT on the drive you just
installed it to.
URL for the bug reporter?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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