Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:22:30 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues. |
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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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