On 12/18/2013 5:00 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> This is logical block addressing, not memory addressing.
I didn't say what it might be, only that it works. :-)
> 32-bit Vista
> and above do support 64-bit logical block addressing as long as the SATA
> controller will support it. Some don't. Your's worked because you have
> the luck of the draw hardware wise.
Or possibly my perspicacity in specifying my hardware from a custom builder,
rather than buying a name brand box off the
shelf.
> You also apparently got a disk that
> was already formatted as GPT or at least was not already formatted as
> MBR. That would have required that you delete that partition to
> reformat the drive as a full size GPT drive.
It was formatted? I dunno, I seem to recall recall setting them up, including
setting the partition and formatting,
maybe not. Why would any maker format a 3 TB disk in such a way that it can't
all be used as one partition? That will
cost a fortune in support expense and lost business. Rhetorical question.
> What you cannot do on 32-bit Vista is boot from that 3TB drive without
> reformatting it back down to a 2TB MBR drive.
You keep repeating this, as though it were important. No one in their right
mind boots off such a large disk.
> See the list of
> restrictions by OS here. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT_Disk>
>
> Even if you have a 64-bit OS it's not a guarantee that your hardware can
> boot from a GPT disk since the BIOS must recognize and support the
> 64-bit LBA and new data structures as well as the OS.
Obviously, it does. I know some Intel disk management thing pops up first after
the computer BIOS.
Stubbornly Obfuscatory Moose
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