From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: Large disk drives Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 14:15:05 -0500 Message-ID: <20141105191505.GF27083@thunk.org> References: <1415203668.13212.2.camel@jarvis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1415203668.13212.2.camel@jarvis> Sender: linux-usb-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Alan Stern , "Dale R. Worley" , linux-scsi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-usb-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 05:07:48PM +0100, James Bottomley wrote: > > OK, but I still don't understand how windows gets the partition table on > there in the first place ... that must surely be some sort of guess the > disk size hack. 99% of the time the partition table was provided by the drive manufacturer; I would assume they have a way of doing that as a part of their manufacturing processes that don't require an OS individually running the equivalent of fdisk or gdisk on said drive. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html