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Is ATA 4 KiB sector supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

Solution Verified - Updated 2017-04-11T20:23:01+00:00 -

Issue

Does RHEL support both 4kb (4096 byte) and 512 byte sector sizes or only one of them? Is so, what versions of the OS?
Is ATA 4 KiB sector supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Are ATA 4 KiB sector issues addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Are 512e disks (using 4096 byte sector sizes internally while speaking 512 byte sector sizes to extern) supported?
Are Advanced Format 512e or 4kN (4k native) disks supported in RHEL?
What are the supported block sizes for RHEL6?
What are the supported block sizes for RHEL5?

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
ATA 4K sector Hard disks

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