From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Yuhong Bao <yuhongbao_386@hotmail.com>
Cc: jeff@garzik.org, ben.collins@ubuntu.com,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
hmh@debian.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: support for drives larger than 2TiB
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:01:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4BEF61.5010203@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SNT125-W4469FAC3FE110BB4882949C3A40@phx.gbl>
(cc'ing hpa, hi!)
Hello,
On 07/24/2010 08:40 PM, Yuhong Bao wrote:
>> However, 2TiB limit is
>> inherent in the BIOS programming interface and currently the only way
>> to overcome it is using a completely different BIOS interface (EFI,
>> that is).
>
> Nope, look at the Int13 extensions, it already support 64-bit LBA.
Ah, yeah, that sounds much more logical than requiring transition to
EFI. Does anyone know how wide spread the support for this extension
is in BIOSes? Do the bootloaders support this?
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-25 8:01 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 [this message]
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
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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