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From: Peter Kieser <peter@kieser.ca>
Subject: Mixing 512-byte sector, and 4096-byte sector drives
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:39:21 -0700
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Hello,

I have a 6-drive RAID6 of WD15EADS (512-byte sector) drives. One of the 
drives is failing, and I have been forced to buy a WD15EARS (4096-byte 
sector) drive to replace the failing drive, and it has the new "advanced 
format" technology.

Do I need to set the "XP" jumper on pins 7-8 to play nicely with the 
other 512-byte sector drives in my array, or will mdraid be okay with 
the 4096-byte sector drive? Will there be a performance penalty adding 
the drive to my array?

Thank you,

-Peter