Starting with firmware build 30862, Windows driver v7.4.0.30850 and Linux driver v1.2.1-40300, the Series 7 and 8 RAID controllers offer native 4K sector support.

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Drivers Adaptec RAID 8885q

For hard disk drives working in 4K native mode, there is no emulation layer in place, and the disk media directly exposes its 4KB physical sector size to the controller firmware and operating system. Readiness of the support for 4KB logical sectors within operating systems differs among their types, vendors and versions.

As there is inbox = embedded within a 3. ADAPTEC RAID 6805 PCI-E ADAPTER DRIVER DOWNLOAD - uploaded on, downloaded 8 times, receiving a 3.68/5 rating by 11 users. Limits for the supported by 106 users. With the recent four SAS 6. We replaced the RAID controller with an Adaptec 6805 because the old controller had some problems. The package provides the Adaptec SAS Enclosure installation files for Adaptec RAID controllers. These drivers are Microsoft Certified for: - Adaptec RAID 8885 using Firmware/BIOS b33023.

Note: only UEFI systems can boot from a 4K sector drive. The legacy Ctrl + A controller BIOS displays all 4K and 512 byte drives connected to the controller during POST and there is Ctrl + A support (like Format and Verify) for both 4K & 512 byte drives but INT 13 support for booting is available for 512 byte drives only.
Please see the following table for an excerpt of supported configurations:

Operating System	4K Boot Support (UEFI systems only)	Generic 4K Support
Windows 10	Yes	Yes
Windows 8.1	Yes	Yes
Windows 8 64-bit	Yes	Yes
Windows 8 32-bit	Not supported	Yes
Windows 7 64-bit	Not supported	Yes
Windows 7 32-bit	Not supported	Yes
Windows Server 2016	Yes	Yes
Windows Server 2012 R2	Yes	Yes
Windows Server 2012	Yes	Yes
Windows SBS 2011, Standard and Essentials	Not supported	Yes
Windows Server 2008 R2	Not supported	Yes
RHEL 6.4 64-bit	Yes	Yes
RHEL 6.4 32-bit	Not supported	Yes
RHEL 6.3 64-bit	Yes	Yes
RHEL 6.3 32-bit	Not supported	Yes
SLES 11 SP3 64-bit	Yes	Yes
SLES 11 SP3 32-bit	Not supported	Yes
Ubuntu 12.04.2 64-bit	Failed*	Yes
Ubuntu 12.04.2 32-bit	Not supported	Yes
CentOS 6.4 64-bit	Yes	Yes

* Failed because of an issue with Ubuntu partition editor. This issue will be fixed in a later version of Ubuntu.
Note: Linux distributions based on kernel 2.6.34 or later will provide support for 4K sector drives. Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 support 4Kn drives for non-root ZFS file systems only. For information about other operating systems please contact the OS vendor.

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