Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756182AbYCYP0K (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:26:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755330AbYCYPZy (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:25:54 -0400 Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.170.189]:41651 "EHLO rn-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753037AbYCYPZx (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:25:53 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=Jf+OxcI7Zmb1Pc+4lXrLIHSWmR34D2KnenZmBU5Ab0kQRl6WgTvb9DgCW0PyFXbQzHwt40VDcoSMmgFN2/jTjqJcV/zocPSXoF85r/avMK4bf4iGHtf9AVbzMHa+igcqCYa09Md1gLeN+C1PJSYz7G4vMGM1gyGhNtwJB9WhL+U= Message-ID: <76366b180803250825s10d706b3ja54df079251d554c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:25:52 -0400 From: "Andrew Paprocki" To: ric@emc.com Subject: Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ? Cc: "Mark Lord" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Jens Axboe" , "Jeff Garzik" , "Tejun Heo" , "Greg KH l" , "Andrew Morton" , "Linux Kernel" , "IDE/ATA development list" , linux-scsi In-Reply-To: <47E90CDA.600@emc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47E875AD.1000901@rtr.ca> <47E8FF58.8050209@rtr.ca> <47E90CDA.600@emc.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 98d85dfaf425f34c Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1356 Lines: 27 On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote: > > Yeah. Except Dell will undoubtedly have them in desktops > > within 2 years, and tons of people (myself included) still use > > 32-bit (K)Ubuntu on our systems, simply for the better binary > > compatibility that it is perceived to give with things like > > browser plugins and stuff. > > I think that there are many embedded applications (lots of them linux based) > which have large amounts of storage behind low power, low cost 32 bit CPU's. > > Think of the home/small office NAS boxes that you can get from bestbuy or other > big box stores. Those devices today have 4 S-ATA drives (each of which can be > 1TB in size). I can attest to this. I hear from a reliable source (manufacturer) that 2TB 3.5" disks will be out no later than first half of 2009 (possibly even sooner, or at least 1.5TB). I currently use 1TB disks with a Geode LX based motherboard for SATA RAID and I plan on upgrading/consolidating to larger sizes once they become available in the market. 64-bit is not an option for me on this hardware. -Andrew -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/