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

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Message-ID: <4C4BF3C2.1020009@kernel.org>
Date:	Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:20:18 +0200
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	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

Hello,

On 07/25/2010 10:07 AM, 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.

Hmmm... doesn't sound too bad then.  Is there an easy to test whether
64bit LBA works?  I have a 2.5TiB drive and can test the machines I
have and probably publish the result too.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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