On Apr 23, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Luther Woodrum <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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 > Can't you just reformat these drives or don't they just have a jumper to make them 512 Matthias _______________________________________________ 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
