Recently obtained WD7500-BPKT (750g) hard drive that apparently possesses Advanced Format technology. On Intel D525MW board through ACPI.
On installation of 5.3-release, offered FFS (not FFS2) - ok ;-) First partition auto-aligned at sector 64. I did not ensure partitions were at 4k multiples. Naughty! Will Advanced Format Just Work(TM)? disklabel seemed to broadly (rather than precisely) follow my 4.0g, 12.0g, etc. partition sizes OR do I need to go back in, use Expert mode now, and MAKE SURE those partitions are exact multiples of 8 sectors i.e. 64 to 2097216 = 1.0g for /? I probably need to DBAN it again anyway but maybe I don't... I can only find David Gwynne's comments on this so far... Your observations much appreciated. Mike P.S. I ignored the suggestion of only formatting 300g for /home and forced the whole lot at the end ;-) I expect I should have aligned the end of this too? (You numpty, Mike!)
