Hello, On 03/09/2010 05:12 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Please correct the following bit in C-3: > > "A different partition format - GPT[6] - should be used beyond 2^32 > sectors, which could harm compatibility with older BIOSs or other > operating systems which don't recognize the new format." > > BIOS does not care about the partition table format. There might be > issues with > 2^32 sectors for BIOSes (e.g. truncating sector counts), > but that would be unrelated. Updated to, This might also be beneficial for operating systems which don't suffer from this limitation. A different partition format - GPT[6] - should be used beyond 2^32 sectors, which could harm compatibility with other operating systems which don't recognize the new format. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
