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The lack of available hardware to test hasn't stopped PC manufactures from supporting media larger than available for a given interface. There are occasionally

The lack of available hardware to test hasn't stopped PC manufactures from supporting media larger than available for a given interface. There are occasionally hiccups, like the whole debacle where the MBR partition table (from 1893) was limited to a few terabytes and the industry switched over to GPT, but even today if you put in a >2TB disk into an ancient machine that does not support GPT it can usually at least use the portion of the disk that it can address. Just read the spec and write your software to support it. It is not like we are asking for support of terabyte SD cards on machines released with the maximum SD card size was 128MB.

Digit-Al 7y ago
> MBR partition table (from 1893) I still think it's quite an impressive feat to support that much data before computers even existed though lol
- mixmastamyk 7y ago
  Maybe not, Babbage might disagree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Engine
Const-me 7y ago
> Just read the spec and write your software to support it I wish PC hardware manufacturers would do that. You don’t even need too old hardware or software to find compatibility bugs, here’s an example: https://superuser.com/q/807871/31483 https://superuser.com/q/807871/31483