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On Sonntag 18 April 2010, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> b |
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> the Winchester Digital WD10EARS S-ATA II 300MB/s GreenPower WD Caviar Green |
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> 1TByte Harddiscs offers something which WD calls "Advanced Format" |
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> which turns out to be sectors of 4096 bytes size instead of 512 bytes. |
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> To use it, one needs a tool made by WD which only runs under windows. |
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> Or? |
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> Is this "new sector size" is something, which I can activate |
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> be using fdisk/mkfs or something included in the linux kernel |
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> since stone age and is only new to the guys at Microsoft/Winchester |
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> Digital? |
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> Can I take any advantage of that? |
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> Thank you very much for any help and advice in advance! |
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> Have a nice sunday! |
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> mcc |
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