Re: support for drives larger than 2TiB

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/25/2010 01:01 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> (cc'ing hpa, hi!)
> Hello,
> 
> On 07/24/2010 08:40 PM, Yuhong Bao wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Ah, yeah, that sounds much more logical than requiring transition to
> EFI.  Does anyone know how wide spread the support for this extension
> is in BIOSes?  Do the bootloaders support this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

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.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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