Please stay safe-we would hate to lose another forum member. Yep, that's the same WD quick format I used to format my drives. And I think it isn't that special either as I believe some raid users on reddit have been able to run 4x shucked drives as 4kn after a format. I'm pretty sure I could have easily formatted my 10TB to a single NTFS partition after the switch to 4kn, but since my reason to switch was to enable a large MBR to be able to create multiple FAT32 partitions, I never tried formatting the whole thing NTFS.įascinating research on the WD formatter-I bet there is a special command that is enabled on the drives. (I used to have a really close friend originally from Recife and she taught me some of the language.) 6.x may do that (10 certaily does), but that's beside the point, of course, since this is the XP forum, after all! And no, he also determined that XP (SP1-3) cannot handle internal 4 kiB drives, be them SATA or IDE. He also found out, although that's just a curiosity, that the "sector size" might also be set to other values than 4 kiB, but that, in fact, the NT-family OSes can use only 2 kiB (besides 512 bytes and 4 kiB), Yet, his son did not yet find any material about that reseach, which, in fact, may have been all done inside a debugger, so probably only some handwritten notes or text documentation may exist, if any. Just before his passing, RLoew was investigating the WD Quick Formatter and he said he had figured out which SCSI commands are used for the "sector size change", but his results also pointed out to the fact that the only HDDs he found that implemented such commands were the external USB WD drives. Just make sure to tag the post with the flair and give a little background info/context.And there's also a report by himself, of having changed sucessfully the apparent sector size to 4 kiB on two different 10TB Bestbuy WD Easystore drives, but IIRR, at that time he hadn't tried to format either as a single 10TB partitions. On Fridays we'll allow posts that don't normally fit in the usual data-hoarding theme, including posts that would usually be removed by rule 4: “No memes or 'look at this '” We are not your personal archival army.
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