From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O3SUn-0000Ff-2u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:17:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A862AE044C; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:16:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F74AE044C for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:16:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2010 11:16:15 -0000 Received: from p548523F0.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.35.240] by mail.gmx.net (mp055) with SMTP; 18 Apr 2010 13:16:15 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/V3rAuKt3VAr3Qydp+KjnMDVrhCWV0ES66ssyV5G 5GWt7aYo0pHre3 Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:16:11 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:16:10 +0200 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: Gentoo Subject: [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format Message-ID: <20100418111610.GC5923@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.57999999999999996 X-Archives-Salt: c81e941a-5c8a-4f44-8adb-6b035c22277d X-Archives-Hash: 47a174776d8cf040ae9ea7d16cbf6aba 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 -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.