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
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