swapping numbers between cylinders, heads, sectors to make a geometry which fits into the limitations). It does, however, bear strong relations to when we had capacity barriers which we had to break – especially in the days of 528Mb – 8.4Gb barriers where CHS translation was the way (i.e. The effects of this I will need to confirm by experiment. I’m really only speculating with the sector slipping, but I’ve seen the sector size reporting as native 4k with my own eyes. This was one of the big issues with migrating to AF drives back in the “XP” days. There may even be a slight funny-thing going on with sector slipping as normally, MBR does start the first partition at sector 63 (which isn’t going to be aligned with a straight mapping). The *magic* is really happening at the bridge chip level where some translation is happening, thus I believe that drives which are *not* AF and are used in computers directly (and partitioned with LBAs of 512 bytes) may have trouble when transferred to bridge chips which do the sector-lumping translation as the block numbers no longer align as each block is 8 times bigger than before and vice-versa. 4k native, 512e), the bridge chips do not pass these commands – so instead, the OS relies on what the bridge chip reports (which will be 4k native). Despite the drives themselves having information that signals to the OS what its “real” self is (i.e. There are no drives which present native 4k sectors to the OS directly without 512e, at least, to my knowledge on the consumer market. They have specific information flags which can tell the OS they “prefer” transfers aligned and sized to 4k, but will still process 512 byte accesses just with some performance penalty. 512 byte emulated sectors), so the Advanced Format drives are (at a low level) pretty much identical. The hard drives themselves are 4k “internally” but present 512e (i.e. This works because the number of blocks in the drive doesn’t exceed the 32-bit size limit when you represent each block as 4k in size rather than 512 bytes.
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they break the 2.1Tb barrier) are often “switched” to present the drive as 4k “native” sector size so that the drives can be (strangely) partitioned in MBR so that 3+Tb drives attached to Windows XP machines (which don’t understand GPT) via USB3.0 still operate properly. I will try to summarize, but it seems that the bridge chips that *are* capable of 2+Tb (i.e. It’s rather technical – I apologize in advance if it’s a bit difficult to follow. You do raise an interesting and rather “complicated” point which I might have to devote an entire blog post to once I confirm what’s happening.
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Unbeknownst to me the bridge board only supports advanced format disks so I’m wondering whether the VLI controllers on your drive’s bridge board might have the same limitation. I recently bought some Hitachi 4TB USB3 external drives because they were (much) cheaper than buying the bare drives. Hi! Love your blog, haven’t had a reason to comment yet but here goes. This article was prompted by this comment on my previous posting about disassembling the Toshiba Canvio 3Tb External Hard Drive: