Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751915Ab0GYIB7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:01:59 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:37778 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751364Ab0GYIB4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:01:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4C4BEF61.5010203@kernel.org> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:01:37 +0200 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yuhong Bao CC: jeff@garzik.org, ben.collins@ubuntu.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hmh@debian.org, "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: support for drives larger than 2TiB References: <4C4AB952.9030705@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:01:39 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 775 Lines: 24 (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. -- tejun -- 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/