Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:53:53 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: support for drives larger than 2TiB |
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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.
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