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On Mar 5, 2012 4:59 AM, "Grant" <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> All my drives says this from fdisk: |
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> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes |
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> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
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> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
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> So it doesn't matter where the first partition starts? |
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Older BIOSes don't understand that hard disks now can have 4KiB sectors, so |
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some of the "advanced format" hard disks report a sector size of 512B. But |
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behind the scenes, the hard disk maps the logical sector to a subsector of |
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the physical sector. |
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The only sure fire way to find out if your hard disk uses 4KiB sectors is |
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to open your computer and eyeball the hard disk. All 4KiB hard disks that I |
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know of have statements on their surface that tell me so. |
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Rgds, |
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