On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:44:22 -0800
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Another possible downside: if you want to multi-boot, the other OS
may also need to understand both GPT and PMBR.
That can be a big problem actually: I'd heard that Windows 7 supported
GPT so I recently tried to install it. It
On 4 December 2010 07:44, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 18:12:58 -0600
Josh Paetzel j...@tcbug.org wrote:
... The caveat is that very few systems have a BIOS that can
boot from a GPT labeled drive. So regardless of your OS, you
Can FreeBSD be successfully installed, and run, on all or part of a hard drive
2 TB? Sector size would be 4 KB, though I think the hard-drive firmware can
make sector size look like 512 bytes. I know fdisk can handle up to 2 TB; this
limit is not just for BSD but Linux too.
Western Digital
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Thomas Mueller
mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote:
Can FreeBSD be successfully installed, and run, on all or part of a hard
drive 2 TB? Sector size would be 4 KB, though I think the hard-drive
firmware can make sector size look like 512 bytes. I know fdisk can
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Sam Fourman Jr. sfour...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Thomas Mueller
mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote:
Can FreeBSD be successfully installed, and run, on all or part of a hard
drive 2 TB? Sector size would be 4 KB, though I think the
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 11:13:56 -0500
Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote:
I don't believe their is one that isn't green. Even Tigerdirect lists
the 3TB model as green. It also lists every model 1.5TB to be green
as well
According to http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=100
On Friday, December 03, 2010 06:00:29 am Thomas Mueller wrote:
Can FreeBSD be successfully installed, and run, on all or part of a hard
drive 2 TB? Sector size would be 4 KB, though I think the hard-drive
firmware can make sector size look like 512 bytes. I know fdisk can
handle up to 2 TB;
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 18:12:58 -0600
Josh Paetzel j...@tcbug.org wrote:
Sure. FreeBSD supports installing to and booting from GPT labeled
disks that don't suffer from the 2TB size limitation that fdisk
imposes. The caveat is that very few systems have a BIOS that can
boot from a GPT labeled
Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 18:12:58 -0600
Josh Paetzel j...@tcbug.org wrote:
... The caveat is that very few systems have a BIOS that can
boot from a GPT labeled drive. So regardless of your OS, you
may still have issues.
That's why we have the Protective MBR
