From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: alex.buell@munted.org.uk
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 11:53:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4C8841.60206@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1280046384.2139.0.camel@lithium.local.net>
On 07/25/2010 01:26 AM, Alex Buell wrote:
> 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?
Yes, but currently there are no 4k *logical* sector products on the
market (and $DEITY knows how many BIOSes would handle them correctly.)
The BIOS interfaces should handle them fine, though.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-25 18:54 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
2010-07-25 18:53 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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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