From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1UCmzF-00088x-ET for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:12:37 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39285) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCmz8-00088B-UC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:12:35 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCmz5-0005uS-HN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:12:30 -0500 Received: from mail-ee0-f48.google.com ([74.125.83.48]:42296) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCmDd-0003jr-RI for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 02:23:25 -0500 Received: by mail-ee0-f48.google.com with SMTP id t10so4528155eei.35 for ; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:23:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=XWm7kv9WDF2IifLFsDraXfOT+UTa1aUdZHmwpgJ4ID0=; b=ezSVe08Kl1+uongHjPQ2HiAuQzwaMKsjdpLUfGJb3ZkUgHH56omejNVjqlFmIZOvum FVn8w0k981xMTb1QmzX9u5N6U3kX6AJMVpWtU0Wapjbt/oR67Kc209QorHCqR3ks0Kv4 bDTkEoJfduWZ+DMdHZSCTLVRAPpipq/eKfnB0gm/3to8h2QfMsvq7f2PPP4WO13ul+66 iLxra1s3KfcAMffROzXcfgYKKyBjpxBivAOs+NmvQKADEUp9XfIXN2nMYMXo8ueHAM+l aPLiEcdsFyYxHcbgUbMrcNw96Yw1FuysEzh0bM4GWmXCSDlvZnGnSpfQWk7T0cpxWjLG CJsw== X-Received: by 10.14.202.71 with SMTP id c47mr53043765eeo.39.1362468204908; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:23:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.x201.phnet ([217.193.148.98]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q42sm35883069eem.14.2013.03.04.23.23.23 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:23:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <51359D36.1040105@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:22:30 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20130116 Icedove/10.0.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: USB3 3TB HDD boot References: <1360696755.21718.53.camel@pracovna> <20130304191935.GF20462@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <5134F71F.1040300@gmail.com> <20130304194307.GJ20462@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig01D9D623E51577CEE8B82048" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 74.125.83.48 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:12:35 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig01D9D623E51577CEE8B82048 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 05.03.2013 00:16, Chris Murphy wrote: >=20 > On Mar 4, 2013, at 12:43 PM, "Lennart Sorensen" wrote: >=20 >> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 08:33:51PM +0100, Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcod= er' Serbinenko wrote: >>> Not necessarily. 3T drives often use msdos, just with 4K sectors whic= h >>> increases the range of msdos to 16T. >> >> Hmm, I suppose that would work. I have never seen one that did that y= et, >> but I don't have that many 3TB drives either. >=20 > I wonder what the BIOS does when it "asks" the drive for LBA 0, and rec= eives 4096 bytes instead of 512 bytes. It doesn't get that far. Most likely it bails out after reading SCSI descriptor. > I'd think the BIOS would have to tolerate receiving 8x the data. I didn= 't know 4Kn drives were shipping yet. I'm not finding anything remotely r= ecent about this when googling it. >=20 > Chris Murphy > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel --------------enig01D9D623E51577CEE8B82048 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAlE1nWkACgkQNak7dOguQgmk3AD+OWS6Atz9jBIYKcapS3cDjJkr zt1hZyZGurdZ5K3TekUA/2TOngiFhN5wtGFb6YiymxbsY74Mll83VQ+G/EQnK9is =E3D9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig01D9D623E51577CEE8B82048--