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From: meino.cramer@gmx.de
To: Gentoo <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:16:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100418111610.GC5923@solfire> (raw)

Hi,

b
the Winchester Digital WD10EARS S-ATA II 300MB/s GreenPower WD Caviar Green
1TByte Harddiscs offers something which WD calls "Advanced Format"
which turns out to be sectors of 4096 bytes size instead of 512 bytes.

To use it, one needs a tool made by WD which only runs under windows.

Or?

Is this "new sector size" is something, which I can activate
be using fdisk/mkfs or something included in the linux kernel
since stone age and is only new to the guys at Microsoft/Winchester
Digital?

Can I take any advantage of that?

Thank you very much for any help and advice in advance!
Have a nice sunday!
mcc



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             reply	other threads:[~2010-04-18 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-18 11:16 meino.cramer [this message]
2010-04-18 14:10 ` [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-04-18 14:16   ` meino.cramer
2010-04-18 17:53     ` Neil Bothwick
2010-04-18 15:41 ` Mark Knecht
2010-04-18 16:11   ` meino.cramer
2010-04-18 17:42     ` Mark Knecht
2010-04-18 17:43       ` Mark Knecht
2010-04-18 22:19         ` pk
2010-04-18 23:10           ` Mark Knecht
2010-04-18 23:46             ` Mark Knecht

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