Re: Using a 4TB (Now 3TB) SATA disk with i386?

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2017, Michael van Elst wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 02:42:30PM +0100, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> > > Now, installing a bootable netbsd onto such a disk is something else,
> > > but as a data disk it's even easier than before.
> >
> > I admit to not knowing how / whether that can be done, and from which
> > version etc.  Your existing wiki page about "using-large-disks" is
> > useful; could you perhaps be inspired to write a follow-on about the
> > above theme?
>
> For BIOS based machines this is complex

Have I missed some context here? It is not complex to boot a BIOS-based 
machine from a GPT disk. That's what gpt biosboot is for. I've been using 
even on NetBSD 5 on a 4TB hardware RAID array (backported the 
changes from newer NetBSD to -5).

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Stephen