On 07/25/2010 01:26 AM, Alex Buell wrote: > On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 01:07 -0700, 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. > > Yes but is it possible to boot from a complete 4k sector with the new > standards? Yes, but currently there are no 4k *logical* sector products on the market (and $DEITY knows how many BIOSes would handle them correctly.) The BIOS interfaces should handle them fine, though. -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
