my 2ยข
I am also considering this drive.
"I want to buy this HDD to solve my storage woes"
If you are using the drive for storage, I don't think you have any problems. I
plan to format with fat32 [not in xp] and use it cross platform.
I tend to use the smallest drives I can find nowadays for the os; usually one
os per box plus a rescue partition often knoppix and preferably on the
beginning of the other [storage, big] disk.
Ssds at 8gb or 16gb or even32gb are getting feasible for the os, I have a few
set up this way. Otherwise I tend to pick the smallest hd I can find, which has
gotten much more difficult since on board sata.
----- Original Message -----
From: Matthias Johnson
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [mhvlug] Advanced Format Hard Drive
On Apr 23, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Luther Woodrum <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, John D. Mort wrote:
>
>> :
>> 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
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