Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Weaver: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:04:51 +1000 > > Scott Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 23/09/11 09:01, Alex wrote: [...] > > Check out Coreboot - and research before buying a device/motherboard. > > That's one way, but new tech is getting to the stage where it won't > work off a standard BIOS. You need the UEFI base to handle such things > as the new 4 TB drives from Seagate and Hitachi now.
No. GPT should be enough and AFAIK there is nothing that hinders a BIOS firmware from supporting GPT. MBR is limited to 2 TiB with 512 byte sectors AFAIK. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
