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On mar., 2016-01-05 at 00:02 +0100, Sven Eschenberg wrote:
> Hi Alexis,

(Yves-Alexis actually)
>=20
> I stumbled over this line:
>=20
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 33553920 bytes
>=20
> The latter resembles 65535 sectors (512 Byte logical ones), which=C2=A0
> explains why the automated alignment was done at sector 65535. This=C2=A0
> value seems extremely weird though.
>=20
> You said the drive was external, connected how? USB maybe?

Yes. It's a Samsung T3 disk, so everything is integrated (disk+sata/usb3
adapter), not much chance I can do anything here.

I'll try to force the alignment to 2048s for part1 and see what happens.
>=20
> Can you take a look at hdparm -I /dev/sdc? Anything unusual there?

I'll try tonight (I don't have it at hand).

Thanks for the pointers though.
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Yves-Alexis


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