From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: support for drives larger than 2TiB Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:12:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4C6D2DA7.9030803@teksavvy.com> References: <4C4AB952.9030705@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:41944 "EHLO ironport2-out.pppoe.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751686Ab0HSNML (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:12:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Yuhong Bao Cc: tj@kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, ben.collins@ubuntu.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hmh@debian.org On 10-07-24 02:48 PM, Yuhong Bao wrote: > > In fact, Seagate is already selling 3TB external drives and CrunchGear > was already able to get the internal 3TB drive inside out: > http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/01/hands-on-the-seagate-freeagent-goflex-desk-3tb-external-hard-drive/ The key word there is _external_ --> by using USB3/2/FW interfaces, they neatly sidestep most BIOS issues. For the time being anyway.