Frank Steinmetzger writes:
> Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 schrieb Willie Wong:
> > Instead of guessing using this rather imprecise metric, why not just
> > look up the serial number of your drive and see what the physical
> > sector size is?
>
> Well, at differences of 50%, precision is of no relevance anymore.
> Also, I already did look it up and it didn’t turn up any conclusive
> results. Just search hits from fdisk output of people who are
> partitioning the drive. So the only thing I can think of yet is to
> call Samsung’s expensive hotline. Hm... oh well, perhaps I could write
> an e-mail, because I’m too niggard and phonophobe to make a call. ^^
No need for either, just look up the drive on Samsung's homepage [*]. It's
512 bytes/sector, you should be fine.
Wonko
[*]http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/productmodel.do?group=72&type=94&subtype=99&model_cd=446
