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<p>Forgot to include: the original WD drives are also "AF", so I
think that rules out sector size incompatibility.</p>
<p>Steve</p>
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<p>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).</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-10-15 2:08 PM, Robert Tweedy
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<font size="2" face="Arial">Hi Steve,<br>
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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.<br>
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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).<br>
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-Robert<br>
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