[ale] SATA drive not recognized by BIOS

[Steve Tynor]

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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