Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Detection of Advanced Format drives | From | "Martin K. Petersen" <> | Date | Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:03:05 -0400 |
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>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>> Is there any way to detect the Advanced Format hard drives with 4K >> sector size? I understand that above kernel v. 2.6.31 it is >> supported. But is it possible detect automatically if the drive is >> an AF drive and how?
Alan> It's in the drive identify data (see the ATA 8 specification Alan> documents)
Or:
http://oss.oracle.com/~mkp/docs/linux-advanced-storage.pdf
-- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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