Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753296Ab0HSNMO (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:12:14 -0400 Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:41944 "EHLO ironport2-out.pppoe.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751686Ab0HSNML (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:12:11 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApIBABHKbExLd/sX/2dsb2JhbAAHgxHId5IcgSKDInME X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.56,233,1280721600"; d="scan'208";a="72985792" Message-ID: <4C6D2DA7.9030803@teksavvy.com> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:12:07 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yuhong Bao CC: tj@kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, ben.collins@ubuntu.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hmh@debian.org Subject: Re: support for drives larger than 2TiB References: <4C4AB952.9030705@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 662 Lines: 15 On 10-07-24 02:48 PM, Yuhong Bao wrote: > > In fact, Seagate is already selling 3TB external drives and CrunchGear > was already able to get the internal 3TB drive inside out: > http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/01/hands-on-the-seagate-freeagent-goflex-desk-3tb-external-hard-drive/ The key word there is _external_ --> by using USB3/2/FW interfaces, they neatly sidestep most BIOS issues. For the time being anyway. -- 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/