On Jul 5, 2011, at 8:12 AM, Soren Kristensen wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > Joel Jaeggli wrote: >> >> On Jul 5, 2011, at 7:49 AM, der Mouse wrote: >>> I assume there's a 28-bit >>> block number field somewhere or some such, but that's just guessing.) >> >> yes 28bit addressing was supplanted by 48bit lba, but not here clearly. > > Yes, the Soekris comBIOS is currently limited to 28 bit LBA, only a > problem if the boot partition is located higher than the limit > The net6501 will not have that problem, mostly because I got fresh AHCI > SATA bios code from Intel.... > > But while I'm working on the comBIOS anyway I will try to find time to > implement 48 bit LBA for older boards too, it's not really that > complicated....
for me that's a bit of a meh feature. since my need to boot from blocks higher than 137 decimal GB is just not there is soekris, we used to have to work around this for servers until bioses caught up. > > Best Regards, > > > Soren Kristensen > > CEO & Chief Engineer > Soekris Engineering, Inc. > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
