July 24, 201114 yr so heres my question. i just found out about this whole advanced format issue and realized i have a wd20ears. i looked at the tutorial here: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Advanced_Format_Drives but dont want to mess anything up. i want to correct anything that may cause a performance hit but how can i tell if my drive is in "compatibility mode"? any other drives that i may need to correct? parity WDC_WD30EZRS-00J99B0_WD-WCAWZ0796781 disk1 WDC_WD4000KD-19NAB0_WD-WMAMY1546033 disk2 WDC_WD20EARS-00MVWB0_WD-WMAZA2740678 disk3 ST3750640AS_3QD03V1K disk4 SAMSUNG_HD753LJ_S13UJDWQ728401 disk5 SAMSUNG_HD753LJ_S13UJ1KQ710938 disk6 WDC_WD10EADS-00L5B1_WD-WCAU47281768 disk7 WDC_WD2002FYPS-01U1B0_WD-WCAVY0917427 disk8 WDC_WD2002FYPS-01U1B0_WD-WCAVY0239346 disk9 WDC_WD2002FYPS-01U1B0_WD-WCAVY0101205 disk10 WDC_WD20EADS-00R6B0_WD-WCAVY1226889 disk11 WDC_WD2002FYPS-01U1B0_WD-WCAVY0576318
July 28, 201114 yr Format all new drives a 4-aligned and do not add any jumpers and you will be fine.
July 30, 201114 yr Author i reformatted it but it is still unaligned. i didnt see any type of menu option to change it. i followed this: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=11842.0 and typed in: dd if=/dev/zero count=200 of=/dev/sdX and when it finished it was still unaligned. i think i missed something.
July 30, 201114 yr Check "Settings", "Disk Settings". It will only apply to new disks or "reformatting". You'll need to determine if any other disks are AF and change them one at a time.
July 30, 201114 yr Author i checked that setting and it was set to mbr 4k aligned. how do i set it to reformat? i thought that was the command i used but i guess not.
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