From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: support for drives larger than 2TiB Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:20:18 +0200 Message-ID: <4C4BF3C2.1020009@kernel.org> References: <4C4AB952.9030705@kernel.org> <4C4BEF61.5010203@kernel.org> <4C4BF0D2.1070503@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4C4BF0D2.1070503@zytor.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Yuhong Bao , jeff@garzik.org, ben.collins@ubuntu.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hmh@debian.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hello, On 07/25/2010 10:07 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Syslinux 4 supports it with full 64-bit capabilities. SeaBIOS (used in > Qemu/KVM) supports it, and I know at least some hardware/firmware RAID > solutions support it; I recently got access to a 3 TB SATA drive but due > to NDA requirements I can't reveal the results of that testing. Hmmm... doesn't sound too bad then. Is there an easy to test whether 64bit LBA works? I have a 2.5TiB drive and can test the machines I have and probably publish the result too. Thanks. -- tejun