RE: support for drives larger than 2TiB

From: Yuhong Bao
Date: Sat Jul 24 2010 - 14:46:33 EST



> However, 2TiB limit is
> inherent in the BIOS programming interface and currently the only way
> to overcome it is using a completely different BIOS interface (EFI,
> that is).
Nope, look at the Int13 extensions, it already support 64-bit LBA.

Yuhong Bao

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