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SubjectRe: [PATCH] msdos: add support for large disks
On 03/03/2010 03:24 PM, Daniel Taylor wrote:
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> Those are good points. We (WD) are trying to get the NDAs, regarding our
> specific not-yet-released products, in place to get the userspace utilities
> updated, and WD is also in communication with the Windows tool developers.
>
> Fundamentally, though, the way Windows XP, which only supports MBR
> partitioning, can use a disk drive capacity larger than 2 TiB is with sector
> sizes larger than 512 bytes. That is far too large a slice of the installed
> base for the disk drive makers to ignore, so these drives and partitions are
> going to be released, whether by WD, or someone else. When someone plugs
> one of these disks into a system running Linux, we don't need to hear about
> "Linux doesn't support it", if there's a reasonable accomodation. In this
> case, both the inputs MBR partitioning, and the data stored as a result, are
> fully capable. It is only the intermediate variables in the module that are
> currently hard-coded to 32-bits, and which truncate the values.
>

I should probably clarify that I was not, in any way, objecting to the
patch; quite on the contrary.

-hpa



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