Re: support for drives larger than 2TiB

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Sun Jul 25 2010 - 04:20:54 EST


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.

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tejun
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