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MHDD with 4TB disk

August 28th, 2021, 16:20

Hi.
With MHDD I am using a 4TB disk with LBA 7,814,037,168.
The problem is that when doing ERASE the final sector 3,519,069,871 appears (slightly less than half).
I have tried /DISABLEBIOS when starting MHDD, it goes into PIO mode but the final sector remains the same.
Why the limit this one?
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Re: MHDD with 4TB disk

October 31st, 2021, 19:16

Have you tried this on a different motherboard with a different chipset? Could be some sort of limit on the hardware that's affecting the software.

Re: MHDD with 4TB disk

October 31st, 2021, 23:34

There appears to be a 32-bit LBA limit.

    7,814,037,168 - 2^32 = 3519069872

Re: MHDD with 4TB disk

October 31st, 2021, 23:57

fzabkar wrote:There appears to be a 32-bit LBA limit.

    7,814,037,168 - 2^32 = 3519069872
Nice! Makes perfect sense. 8)

Re: MHDD with 4TB disk

March 7th, 2023, 16:11

fzabkar wrote:There appears to be a 32-bit LBA limit.

    7,814,037,168 - 2^32 = 3519069872


So it means MHDD limitation or motherboard / system limitation?
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