On 6 December 2010 21:43, Fred Liu <fred_...@issi.com> wrote: > > 3TB HDD needs UEFI not the traditional BIOS and OS support. > > > > Fred >
Fred: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3858/the-worlds-first-3tb-hdd-seagate-goflex-desk-3tb-review/2 Namely: "a feature of GPT is 64-bit LBA support. With 64-bit LBAs the largest 512-byte sector drive we can address is 9.4ZB GPT drives are supported as data drives in all x64 versions of Windows as well as Mac OS X and Linux. You’ll note that I said data and not boot drives. In order to boot to a GPT partition, you need hardware support. I just mentioned that your PC’s BIOS looks at LBA 0 for the MBR. Your BIOS does not support booting to GPT partitioned drives. GPT is however supported by systems that implement a newer BIOS alternative: Intel’s Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI)." I would imagine that anyone looking at this list didn't want the 3TB drive as a boot drive (rpool), but as a data drive. Cheers,
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