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From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@munted.org.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Yuhong Bao <yuhongbao_386@hotmail.com>,
	jeff@garzik.org, ben.collins@ubuntu.com,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	hmh@debian.org
Subject: Re: support for drives larger than 2TiB
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:26:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1280046384.2139.0.camel@lithium.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C4BF0D2.1070503@zytor.com>

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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-25  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-24  9:58 support for drives larger than 2TiB Tejun Heo
2010-07-24 12:21 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-07-24 12:36 ` Alex Buell
2010-07-24 13:49   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-07-24 21:15     ` Alex Buell
2010-07-24 18:40 ` Yuhong Bao
2010-07-24 21:38   ` Greg Freemyer
2010-07-24 23:22     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-07-25  7:49       ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-25  2:25     ` Yuhong Bao
2010-07-25  8:01   ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-25  8:07     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-25  8:20       ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-25 18:52         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-27  8:41           ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-25  8:26       ` Alex Buell [this message]
2010-07-25 18:53         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-24 18:48 ` Yuhong Bao
2010-08-19 13:12   ` Mark Lord
2010-08-23  7:40     ` Yuhong Bao

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