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SubjectRe: ATA 4 KiB sector issues.
Hello,

On 03/09/2010 05:12 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Please correct the following bit in C-3:
>
> "A different partition format - GPT[6] - should be used beyond 2^32
> sectors, which could harm compatibility with older BIOSs or other
> operating systems which don't recognize the new format."
>
> BIOS does not care about the partition table format. There might be
> issues with > 2^32 sectors for BIOSes (e.g. truncating sector counts),
> but that would be unrelated.

Updated to,

This might also be beneficial for operating systems which don't
suffer from this limitation. A different partition format - GPT[6]
- should be used beyond 2^32 sectors, which could harm compatibility
with other operating systems which don't recognize the new format.

Thanks.

--
tejun


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