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Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:20:18 +0200
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: support for drives larger than 2TiB
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Hello,

On 07/25/2010 10:07 AM, 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.

Hmmm... doesn't sound too bad then.  Is there an easy to test whether
64bit LBA works?  I have a 2.5TiB drive and can test the machines I
have and probably publish the result too.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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