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Western Digital’s Advanced Format: The 4K Sector Transition Begins
- pbhjpbhj 17y agohdparm tells me "Logical/Physical Sector size: 512 bytes" but this article tells me: Unfortunately, at this point the utility also serves as the only way to identify an Advance Format drive without physically looking at it. Looking at the ATA spec, it looks like there’s a provision for asking a drive its native sector size (regardless of 512B emulation) but at this point there’s no such tool beyond the WD Align utility itself. So did hdparm just guess ....