Dangit, the #FreeBSD installer foiling me again. Trying to install onto a zfs root mirror, choosing "Force 4k Sectors" (the default) says "gpart: Invalid alignment param: Invalid argument". Turning _off_ forced 4k sectors says "newfs_msdos: Invalid bytes/sector (520): must be 512, 1024, 2048, or 4096".
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@AFresh1 are you using disks with 520-byte sectors? you may want to reformat them as 512-byte, since it has no benefit with zfs
@lw maybe. I mean, this is the installer creating the partitions, I wonder how I change that.
@AFresh1 i don't know how to do it on freebsd off hand, maybe something with camcontrol. linux apparently has a utility called sg_format which can do it...
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3@lw Looks like `camcontrol` We'll see how it works.
@lw yay! the camcontrol in that article did fix it. Who needs to understand stuff 
@AFresh1 we should probably have an easier way to do this, you don't often need it but it's rather unhelpful to require the user to know the SCSI command as a sequence of bytes...