[ale] SATA drive not recognized by BIOS

[Steve Tynor]

Forgot to include: the original WD drives are also "AF", so I think that 
rules out sector size incompatibility.

Steve


On 2023-10-15 2:16 PM, Steve Tynor via Ale wrote:
>
> I'm not certain how to be sure.  A quick duckduckgo search suggests 
> that 4k native sector also being marketed as "Advanced Format" - is 
> that right?   Looking at the Toshiba spec page, I see AF listed as 
> "Yes" for the 8T (the first drive I tried) and "No" for the 4T (which 
> also didn't work).
>
> https://storage.toshiba.com/docs/support-docs/toshiba_n300_salessheet_english_07-27-21.pdf?Status=Master
>
> Steve
>
> On 2023-10-15 2:08 PM, Robert Tweedy via Ale wrote:
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> Out of curiosity, are the new drives "4K native" sector drives, and 
>> is this the same as the old drives you're replacing? If the system's 
>> old enough its BIOS might not support that & is expecting to have 
>> "512n" (512-native) or "512e" (512-emulated) sector-size drives.
>>
>> Other than that, I'm not sure what it could be beyond being Toshiba 
>> brand (which I've personally never had good experience with, but 
>> that's only anecdotal).
>>
>> -Robert
>>
>
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