Re: USB3 3TB HDD boot

[Chris Murphy]

On Mar 15, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Lennart Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 09:59:22AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
>> If I want to see just the GPT header, which while only ~92 bytes, by spec it 
>> gets its own sector, there's far less superfluous information using a bs of 
>> 512 bytes than 4096 bytes.
> 
> True, although the drive has to read 4096 bytes no matter how much you
> ask for.

OK.

In any case, these drives are floating around, and with at least one company's 
firmware (of unknown affected models) it causes a hang when trying to boot 
Windows. If the CSM-BIOS method is used to install Linux, I'd expect that to 
hang as well when such a drive is attached. I think it's reasonable to expect 
more strange behaviors as a result of these drives.

Chris Murphy