Re: What about FORMAT?

> On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Brian E. Reifsnyder wrote:
>
> > Yes, I know.  But, it has a couple minor problems with extremely large
hard
> > drives (>128GB), needs international language support, needs regression
> > tested, and has a few bugs left to fix.  In addition, I don't think it
will
> > work with hard disks > 512GB at this time.   :-)
>
> That's the 65536 cylinder limit right? Since even for LBA you still let
> partitions start at a "cylinder boundary"?
>
> You'll hit another and this time really fundamental limit someday with 2
> TiB (2^32 sectors).
>

Oops, I was thinking that 2^32 sectors was 512GB, for some reason.  So, at
this time, the real theoretical limit is 2TiB.

Yes, LBA still has to have the partitions start on the cylinder boundaries.
This is actually a great help because all I had to do was write some code to
translate LBA addresses into CHS, let fdisk make all the computations in
CHS, then translate the CHS values back to LBA.

Regards,

Brian