hmm, on Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:05:10AM +0200, frantisek holop said that > i wonder what will happen when 65536/255/63 is reached, > what kind of frankenstein translation table will come into life > just to save c/h/s again. maybe there will come an LBA only age, > i mean fdisk-wise, not disk-wise, those are already LBA only...
openbsd could be the first one to nuke c/h/s from the MBR entirely, replace it with 8 or 16 byte LBA values (4 bytes currently) and lead the way for terribly huge disks :] -f -- number of vulcans to replace a bulb? precisely 1.000000.