Booting from a 3TB HDD (it works!)

[lp231]

MaximumPC managed to get a 3TB drive to boot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBxwKPORzYo&feature=player_embedded

 

[abdussamad]

Why do they need the raid card if the BIOS does support booting from a 3TB drive?

 

[sminlal]

Why do they need the raid card if the BIOS does support booting from a 3TB drive?

According to this Anandtech article it's because Intel's ICH chipset drivers don't support 64-bit LBAs and therefore the motherboard SATA controller won't work with drives larger than 2TB (at least not in SATA mode).