https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Format
Tools which will report the physical sector of a drive (provided the drive will report it correctly) includes
- smartmontools (since 5.41 ; smartmontools -a, in information section)
- hdparm (since 9.12 ; hdparm -I, in configuration section)
Note that both works even for USB-attached discs (if the USB bridge supports SAT aka SCSI/ATA Translation, ANSI INCITS 431-2007).
-------------------------smartctl reports 512 bytes Physical size for AF Disk
http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?t=26382&p=180240