Re: Disks w/non-512-byte sectors?

[Justin Cormack <justin%specialbusservice.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Dan LaBell <dan4l-nospam%verizon.net@localhost> wrote:
> I'm wondering if formated this way, the drive provides no error detection/
> correction,and devotes the whole physical sector to data -- Instead of 512
> bytes , and
> so many bytes for ECC.  I'm also wondering if I have some drives like these.
> what's dmesg, say about the drives?   Are they little bit taller than
> standard?

T10 data integrity is the intended function, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Integrity_Field - so it is for user
checksums on the sector.

Justin