I see the latest Western Digital notebook drives use Advanced Format[1], which means they use 4,096-byte sectors instead of the usual 512-byte sectors. Apparently this requires using a fairly recent Linux kernel[2]. (But not exactly cutting-edge. An Ubuntu 9.10 system will have a kernel new enough to provide minimal support.)
Though even an older kernel will work, if you take care to manually align your partitions. I gather the worse case scenario is that you suffer diminished performance from the drive if the boundaries are misaligned. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_format 2. http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5655/~/how-to-install-a-wd-advanced-format-drive-on-a-non-windows-operating-system Anyone ran into problems using such a drive with Linux? Enough so that you'd avoid such drives? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
