On 12/06/2010 05:17 AM, taemun wrote: > On 6 December 2010 21:43, Fred Liu <fred_...@issi.com > <mailto: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,
64-bit versions of windows 7/vista can boot off GPT volumes. Microsoft made a lot of BS excuses on why you couldn't boot off GPT but linux has been able to boot off GPT via grub for like forever (32 and 64-bit) even on older hardware. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
