On Sonntag 18 April 2010, meino.cra...@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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