Research. Unfortunately, most (all?) AF drives currently emulate 512b sectors to the system. There is a mechanism for a drive to report the real physical sector size in addition to the emulated one, but I don't believe it's universally implemented.
Unless you're running an archaic OS (ie: XP or earlier) or use disk cloning utilities though, it shouldn't matter. Vista and later use a 1MB starting offset that aligns well with just about everything. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of FORC5 > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 8:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [H] advanced format ? > > Is there a way to check if a disk is advanced format ? > > Thanks > fp > > > -- > Tallyho ! ]:8) > Taglines below ! > -- > Imagine the silence if everyone said only what they know.
