Subject: Re: bug#27884: parted reports the partition is not optimally aligned, even though it's 1MiB-aligned
From: Phil Susi <[email-masked]>
To: Alicia Boya García <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:02:49 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 9/20/2017 9:57 AM, Alicia Boya García wrote:
> Indeed.
> 
> This drive was advertising a ridiculous optimal_io_size that is not even
> a power of two (2^16-1 512-byte sectors). Unfortunately this seems to be
> the case with more Seagate drives:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2016-12/msg00002.html
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5249211/

You have to love drive firmware bugs, especially when the bastards never
fix them.