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On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 18:40:50 +0400
Alexey Tarasov <me@lexasoft.ru> wrote:

> http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/WhitePapers/ENG/2579-771430.pdf
> 
> > References
> > The ATA8-ACS and SBC-3 standards have provisions for a disk drive to report Advanced Format sector sizes and other performance optimization information. These standards are used for SATA, SAS, USB, and IEEE 1394 based interface technologies.
> 

This is apparently the Long Physical Sector features set.  The question is
whether it's been implemented.

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Gary Jennejohn