Advanced Format drive

[jusbug]

please guys, i just got myself seagate Momentus XT 500GB and i want to know if is there a way to tell if my new HDD is an Advanced Format drive.
when i do fdisk -l i got:


Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xbcf2992a

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 106498047 53248000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 106498048 976773119 435137536 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 106500096 868356095 380928000 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0baca6b0

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 1953521663 976759808 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x051d565e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 64 1953520064 976760000+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/dm-0: 3221 MB, 3221225472 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 391 cylinders, total 6291456 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

[DBelton]

if you have a filesystem defined on the drive...

run:

fdisk -l /dev/sdX1

(sdX1 is device identifier, like sda1, sdb1, etc...)

If it's NOT an advanced format drive, it will look something like this:

Disk /dev/sdi: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3132f6ca

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdi1               1  3907029167  1953514583+  ee  GPT

If it IS an advanced format drive it will look like this:

Disk /dev/sdj: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfc89fc8a

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdj1               1  3907029167  1953514583+  ee  GPT

Notice the difference on the line that has Sector size (logical/physical)? (The drive I have still reports to the OS as having 512 byte sectors, but it has 4096 byte physical sectors, like most of the advanced format drives are doing currently)

I don't think the Seagate Momentus XT drives are advanced format, though. Aren't those drives the "hybrid" drive? in between the standard platter drives and true SSD drives?