On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, John D. Mort wrote:
I want to buy this HDD to solve my storage woes: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136490 All this talk about Advanced Format Hard Drive Technology is making me wonder if this is a good buy though. If I want my XP partition to be able to read it properly I'll have to install their WD Align utility (unlikely I'll bother though, as the XP partition is just got gaming.) The fact that this requirement is in place for XP though makes me uncertain where linux stands with this technology. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/advancedformat/ I'm running Ubuntu 9.10, with the intention of hopping on board 10.04 -- John D. Mort http://john.mort.net _______________________________________________
Do not get an advanced format drive! The disk reports a sector size of 512 to linux, instead of 1k, 2k or 4k. The OS goes bannanas trying to initialize. There is a work around, but I would not count on it, because
it doesn't always work. Lex _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium May 5 - Crack and LLVM Jun 2 - Android Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie
