RE: support for drives larger than 2TiB

From: Yuhong Bao
Date: Sat Jul 24 2010 - 22:25:51 EST



> 64-bit LBA? I assume you meant 48-bit LBA from ATA-7. It will
> address up to PBs I believe. (KB, MB, GB, TB, PB, ....)
Yes, the sector number in Int13 extensions really is 64-bit.
Look at the Ralf Brown Interrupt List, for example.

Yuhong Bao

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