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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:10:36 +0200
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On Sonntag 18 April 2010, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> 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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