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diff --git a/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn b/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn index fa5105bd..654379a3 100644 --- a/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn +++ b/faq/2_gib_partition_limit.mdwn @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] The 2 GiB ext2fs limit has been removed. -IDE disk drivers however currently do not support more than 2^28 sectors, i.e. 128GiB. +IDE disk drivers (`hd*`) however currently do not support more than 2^28 sectors, i.e. 128GiB. -The gnumach AHCI disk driver supports up to 2^48 sectors, i.e. 128PiB, but the device interface supports only 2^32 sectors, i.e. 2TiB. +The gnumach AHCI disk driver (`sd*`) and rumpkernel drivers (`wd*`) support up to 2^48 sectors, i.e. 128PiB, but the device interface supports only 2^32 sectors, i.e. 2TiB. You can have a bigger disk, you just should not put disk partitions beyond these limits for the drivers to be able to read from them. |