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>>>>> "Andries" == Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> writes:

Andries> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 05:03:31PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>> So, will the DOS partition make it up to 2TB?  If so, then we won't
>> have a problem until we have larger than 2TB drives

Andries> Yes, DOS partition table works up to 2^32 sectors, and with
Andries> 2^9-byte sectors that is 2 TiB.

Andries> People are encountering that limit already. We need something
Andries> better, either use some existing scheme, or invent something.

We had this discussion before, back when I first submitted the large
block device patches.  The consensus then was to use EFI, or LDM.

Unless the BIOS supports a partitioning scheme, you're not
going to be able to boot anyway, or at least not without doing
something clever.

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