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 -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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
