On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Robert Garron <[email protected]> wrote: > Joel, > > Can your group do what Bill is asking below? > Similar to the change of 36 gig to 300 gig... > > Regards, > Robert > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: Disk drives > Date: Mon March 28 2011 > From: Bill Parke <[email protected]> > To: Robert Garron <[email protected]>, Ken Ballou > <[email protected]> > > Ask Joel if SATA drives, with 4KB block size drives can be supported. > Anything > over 2.7TB disk drives are not addressable in 512 byte blocks. > > Also, I believe the general Grub 2 (We need to get to it) supports GPT drives > so > there may or may not need to be microcode changes needed. Or the Grub folks
Microcode changes for what? This seems like much ado about nothing. Here's the thing to do: use an old IDE or SCSI disk for booting the Alpha. In many cases, an IDE->Compact Flash adapter will allow you to boot from Compact Flash. >From there, once Linux loads you're free to load the root filesystem from any disk the kernel has drivers for. Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
