On 05.03.2013 00:16, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Mar 4, 2013, at 12:43 PM, "Lennart Sorensen" > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 08:33:51PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' >> Serbinenko wrote: >>> Not necessarily. 3T drives often use msdos, just with 4K sectors which >>> increases the range of msdos to 16T. >> >> Hmm, I suppose that would work. I have never seen one that did that yet, >> but I don't have that many 3TB drives either. > > I wonder what the BIOS does when it "asks" the drive for LBA 0, and receives > 4096 bytes instead of 512 bytes.
It doesn't get that far. Most likely it bails out after reading SCSI descriptor. > I'd think the BIOS would have to tolerate receiving 8x the data. I didn't > know 4Kn drives were shipping yet. I'm not finding anything remotely recent > about this when googling it. > > Chris Murphy > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
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