Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware
Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Weaver:
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:04:51 +1000
>
> Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 23/09/11 09:01, Alex wrote:
[...]
> > Check out Coreboot - and research before buying a device/motherboard.
>
> That's one way, but new tech is getting to the stage where it won't
> work off a standard BIOS. You need the UEFI base to handle such things
> as the new 4 TB drives from Seagate and Hitachi now.
No. GPT should be enough and AFAIK there is nothing that hinders a BIOS
firmware from supporting GPT.
MBR is limited to 2 TiB with 512 byte sectors AFAIK.
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