On Tue Oct 4 08:09:55 EDT 2011, charles.fors...@gmail.com wrote: > no, i meant to select what the drive advertises. it would be a bit > disconcerting if flipping a bit had to reformat a drive!
well they advertize *two* different sector sizes, a logical size and a physical size. the drive never changes the physical format, but may do read/modify/write cycles in the case of writes that don't cover a full physical sector. - erik
