Re: How to install grub on fakeraid (raid 0) which spans 2 TB?

[Seth Goldberg]

On Dec 23, 2009, at 9:37 PM, Bruce Dubbs <address@hidden> wrote:

> Seth Goldberg wrote:
>
> > While the BIOS call supports 48-bit LBA, the MBR partition table is  
> > limited to 32-bit LBA addresses for partition dimensions.  If you  
> > partition the disk with a GPT partition table, those limitations  
> > are removed, but GPT-partitioned disks aren't supported by XP (at  
> > least).
>
> Excellent point, but doesn't that mean a BIOS that supports LBA  
> (which as been around for many years) will support 2^18 TB?  I think  
> my arithmetic is correct, but please correct me if I misunderstand.

  Assuming a 512-byte sector size, the total number of bytes is 2^9 *  
2^48 = 2^57 = 2^27 TB.

  --S

>  -- Bruce
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