On Dec 23, 2009, at 9:37 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
Seth Goldberg wrote:
While the BIOS call supports 48-bit LBA, the MBR partition table is
limited to 32-bit LBA addresses for partition dimensions. If you
partition the disk with a GPT partition table, those limitations
are removed, but GPT-partitioned disks aren't supported by XP (at
least).
Excellent point, but doesn't that mean a BIOS that supports LBA
(which as been around for many years) will support 2^18 TB? I think
my arithmetic is correct, but please correct me if I misunderstand.
Assuming a 512-byte sector size, the total number of bytes is 2^9 *
2^48 = 2^57 = 2^27 TB.
--S
-- Bruce
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