On 9/22/2010 9:17 PM, John Gilmore wrote: > I received a 3TB Seagate drive today. Due to PC-clone boot issues, > they don't sell it as an ordinary SATA drive, but you can buy the external > USB drive and merely take it out of the box. It's $200. See: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148580 > > I'm writing to suggest that parted developers consider getting > such a drive and testing with it. It's the first ordinary SATA > drive holding more than 2TB. > > Here's a review of the drive (both as a SATA drive and in its native > USB2 and optional USB3 interfaces): > > > http://www.anandtech.com/show/3858/the-worlds-first-3tb-hdd-seagate-goflex-desk-3tb-review/
Interesting read, but there are a few errors in the article, which you seem to have already hinted at. The bios can boot a gpt disk just fine. The problem is with the boot loader. The Windows boot loader expects to find an active partition to chain load, which it won't with a stock gpt disk. As you found, you can however, use a hybrid where you expose the Windows boot partition via the MBR to trick the windows boot loader into working. Now that I look at it though, it looks like the Windows boot loader will fail if the partition starts beyond the 2tb mark, so you might need a dedicated boot partition below that. Grub2 does not have that limitation, and will boot just fine from a gpt disk. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
