2.4TB disk - MBR and GPT coexist?

Jo Rhett jrhett at svcolo.com
Fri Jan 12 23:15:03 UTC 2007


On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:49:38 -0800
> Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> It is already possible for them to coexist. It's not uncommon in the
>> industry to use MBR partitions even though the disk has GPT. The
>> point is that you need to tools to avoid making a mess. Ideally you
>
> Apparently, such tools exist, at least for Intel Macs:
> http://refit.sourceforge.net/

Right.  But unless they've submitted their source changes back to  
FreeBSD, it isn't relevant to what we can do now.

It's nice to be able to dictate your hardware :-)

-- 
Jo Rhett
senior geek
Silicon Valley Colocation






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