Re: Howto for properly partitioning new drives with 4096 byte sectors (like Western Digital Advanced Format EARS drives)

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On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Aleksander Adamowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Martin K. Petersen
> "So what are the first Advanced Format drives and when are they due?
> The first drives will be Caviar Green drives using multiple 500GB
> platters – so the 1TB, 1.5TB, and 2TB Caviar Green. These drives will
> be shipping any day now, and can be identified through two different
> methods: 1) They all have 64MB of cache - the first WD Caviar Green
> drives to come with that much cache - and 2) They all have EARS in the
> drive model number, e.g. WD10EARS"
>
> My drive seems to prove their article wrong :(

Looks like I'm not the only one being disappointed:
http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/Problem-with-WD-Advanced-Format-drive-in-LINUX-WD15EARS/m-p/7452

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  Aleksander Adamowski
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