From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Buell Subject: Re: support for drives larger than 2TiB Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:26:24 +0100 Message-ID: <1280046384.2139.0.camel@lithium.local.net> References: <4C4AB952.9030705@kernel.org> <4C4BEF61.5010203@kernel.org> <4C4BF0D2.1070503@zytor.com> Reply-To: alex.buell@munted.org.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: Received: from v-smtp-auth-relay-3.gradwell.net ([79.135.125.42]:37126 "EHLO v-smtp-auth-relay-3.gradwell.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751887Ab0GYI07 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:26:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4C4BF0D2.1070503@zytor.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Tejun Heo , Yuhong Bao , jeff@garzik.org, ben.collins@ubuntu.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hmh@debian.org On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 01:07 -0700, 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. Yes but is it possible to boot from a complete 4k sector with the new standards? -- http://www.munted.org.uk One very high maintenance cat living here.