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From: worley-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org (Dale R. Worley)
To: tytso-3s7WtUTddSA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-scsi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-usb-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Large disk drives
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 14:17:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201411061917.sA6JHEGg007026@hobgoblin.ariadne.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141105191505.GF27083-AKGzg7BKzIDYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org> (tytso-3s7WtUTddSA@public.gmane.org)

> From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso-3s7WtUTddSA@public.gmane.org>
> 
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 05:07:48PM +0100, James Bottomley wrote:
> > 
> > OK, but I still don't understand how windows gets the partition table on
> > there in the first place ... that must surely be some sort of guess the
> > disk size hack.
> 
> 99% of the time the partition table was provided by the drive
> manufacturer; I would assume they have a way of doing that as a part
> of their manufacturing processes that don't require an OS individually
> running the equivalent of fdisk or gdisk on said drive.

I would expect it as part of the manufacturer's testing process.
After all, the disks are going to be plugged into a machine whose
whole purpose is to run the disk through its paces, and the machine
knows in advance exactly how big the disk is.

Dale
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-06 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-03 21:06 Large disk drives Dale R. Worley
2014-11-04  7:52 ` James Bottomley
     [not found]   ` <1415087562.2351.3.camel-7O4RPy5TklLPRNG96csxHf8+0UxHXcjY@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-04 16:14     ` Alan Stern
     [not found]       ` <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1411041112010.966-100000-IYeN2dnnYyZXsRXLowluHWD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-05 15:51         ` Dale R. Worley
2014-11-05 16:07       ` James Bottomley
2014-11-05 16:34         ` Alan Stern
     [not found]           ` <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1411051130470.1531-100000-IYeN2dnnYyZXsRXLowluHWD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-05 18:53             ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-11-05 19:30           ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]             ` <20141105193045.GA13265-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-06 10:30               ` James Bottomley
2014-11-06 14:33                 ` Boaz Harrosh
     [not found]                   ` <545B86AC.3080704-/8YdC2HfS5554TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-06 15:53                     ` Alan Stern
2014-11-06 16:43                       ` Boaz Harrosh
     [not found]                         ` <545BA52F.6050205-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-06 17:08                           ` David Laight
2014-11-06 17:18                             ` James Bottomley
2014-11-06 15:54                   ` James Bottomley
2014-11-06 16:34                     ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-11-06 16:59                       ` Alan Stern
2014-11-06 19:23                 ` Dale R. Worley
2014-11-06 20:16                   ` Alan Stern
2014-11-05 19:15         ` Theodore Ts'o
     [not found]           ` <20141105191505.GF27083-AKGzg7BKzIDYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-06 19:17             ` Dale R. Worley [this message]
2014-11-05 23:30       ` Dale R. Worley
2014-11-06 17:47         ` Alan Stern
2014-11-07  4:53 Norman Diamond
     [not found] ` <533357.25557.qm-303aDswoEIZ5hgrKqgaBcEyFvBl6snHEEwWAM/ix52Y@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-07 10:03   ` David Laight
2014-11-08  0:35     ` Norman Diamond

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