Re(2): [SunRescue] Linux, SS20, partition sizes

[Tim Hauber]

rescue at sunhelp.org writes:
>SCSI drives aren't generally addressed by cylinder combinations but by a
>single block number.  Linux (and Solaris for that matter) only is subject
>to limitations like this when imposed by the hardware.  PC BIOS can't boot
>from blocks above the (archaic c/h/s translation!) 1024th cylinder.
>Pre-Ultra boot PROMs can't read past 2GB on their own.
>
>-James

What is really fun is the same big drives on those PCs have to translate
the lba addressing to talk to the machine while it is booting,  like
translating English to French to talk to some guy who knows English.