Re: [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format

2010-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:19 PM, pk wrote: >> On 2010-04-18 19:43, Mark Knecht wrote: >> suspicion is that Linux is doing something that wakes the drive up once every two minutes and then lets the drive go back to sleep. That >> >> S

Re: [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format

2010-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:19 PM, pk wrote: > On 2010-04-18 19:43, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> suspicion is that Linux is doing something that wakes the drive up >>> once every two minutes and then lets the drive go back to sleep. That > > Sounds a bit like: > http://lwn.net/Articles/257426/ > > Altho

Re: [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format

2010-04-18 Thread pk
On 2010-04-18 19:43, Mark Knecht wrote: >> suspicion is that Linux is doing something that wakes the drive up >> once every two minutes and then lets the drive go back to sleep. That Sounds a bit like: http://lwn.net/Articles/257426/ Although it may be different in your case... Best regards Pe

Re: [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format

2010-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:16:55 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > any hint for a keyword other than "advanced" and "format" ??? "4K blocks" -- Neil Bothwick When there's a will, I want to be in it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format

2010-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:11 AM,   wrote: > >> >> Hi Gandalf, >> >> thanks a lot for your extensive explanations!!! >> Unfortunately, I already bought two of those drives...according >> to your explanation about the expected lifetime of those

Re: [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format

2010-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:11 AM, wrote: > > Hi Gandalf, > > thanks a lot for your extensive explanations!!! > Unfortunately, I already bought two of those drives...according > to your explanation about the expected lifetime of those I think > I have done the complete wrong decision... > But what

Re: [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format

2010-04-18 Thread meino . cramer
Mark Knecht [10-04-18 17:44]: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 4:16 AM, wrote: > > Hi, > > > > b > > the Winchester Digital WD10EARS S-ATA II 300MB/s GreenPower WD Caviar Green > > 1TByte Harddiscs offers something which WD calls "Advanced Format" > > which turns out to be sectors of 4096 bytes size in

Re: [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format

2010-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 4:16 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > b > the Winchester Digital WD10EARS S-ATA II 300MB/s GreenPower WD Caviar Green > 1TByte Harddiscs offers something which WD calls "Advanced Format" > which turns out to be sectors of 4096 bytes size instead of 512 bytes. > > To use it, one needs

Re: [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format

2010-04-18 Thread meino . cramer
Volker Armin Hemmann [10-04-18 16:12]: > On Sonntag 18 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > b > > the Winchester Digital WD10EARS S-ATA II 300MB/s GreenPower WD Caviar Green > > 1TByte Harddiscs offers something which WD calls "Advanced Format" > > which turns out to be sectors

Re: [gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format

2010-04-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 18 April 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > b > the Winchester Digital WD10EARS S-ATA II 300MB/s GreenPower WD Caviar Green > 1TByte Harddiscs offers something which WD calls "Advanced Format" > which turns out to be sectors of 4096 bytes size instead of 512 bytes. > > To use i

[gentoo-user] Winchester Digital HD: Advanced Format

2010-04-18 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, b the Winchester Digital WD10EARS S-ATA II 300MB/s GreenPower WD Caviar Green 1TByte Harddiscs offers something which WD calls "Advanced Format" which turns out to be sectors of 4096 bytes size instead of 512 bytes. To use it, one needs a tool made by WD which only runs under windows. Or? I