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