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

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Robert Garron
<Robert.Garron@access3000.net> wrote:
> Joel,
>
> Can your group do what Bill is asking below?
> Similar to the change of 36 gig to 300 gig...
>
> Regards,
> Robert
>
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>
> 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

Microcode changes for what?

This seems like much ado about nothing. Here's the thing to do: use an
old IDE or SCSI disk for booting the Alpha. In many cases, an
IDE->Compact Flash adapter will allow you to boot from Compact Flash.
>From there, once Linux loads you're free to load the root filesystem
from any disk the kernel has drivers for.

Matt