Re: Detection of Advanced Format drives

[Martin K. Petersen]

>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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