linux-kernel - Re: support for drives larger than 2TiB

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Date:	Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:26:24 +0100
From:	Alex Buell <alex.buell@...ted.org.uk>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Yuhong Bao <yuhongbao_386@...mail.com>,
	jeff@...zik.org, ben.collins@...ntu.com, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hmh@...ian.org
Subject: Re: support for drives larger than 2TiB

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? 
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