current status of alpha in squeeze - Storage Question - we will need to store the code some where - Fwd: Disk drives

[Robert Garron <Robert.Garron@access3000.net>]

Joel,

Can your group do what Bill is asking below?  
Similar to the change of 36 gig to 300 gig...

Regards,
Robert

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Subject: Disk drives
Date: Mon March 28 2011
From: Bill Parke <Bill.Parke@access3000.net>
To: Robert Garron <Robert.Garron@access3000.net>, Ken Ballou 
<thecryptoboy@gmail.com>

Ask Joel if SATA drives, with 4KB block size drives can be supported.  
Anything 
over 2.7TB disk drives are not addressable in 512 byte blocks.

Also, I believe the general Grub 2 (We need to get to it) supports GPT drives 
so 
there may or may not need to be microcode changes needed.   Or the Grub folks 
may have already doen this (I would expect).

Wee will need to get the state of all the available Debian packages to find 
out 
where alpa is already done, or partly done or AMD/Intel/Itaniun is known to 
work.

We will need Debian's test harnesses and test modules used for old Alpha and 
new 
AMD (to adapt).

Bill

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