[GTALUG] MBR and GTP Drives

James Knott james.knott at rogers.com
Mon Oct 9 11:00:36 EDT 2017


On 10/07/2017 08:53 PM, Howard Gibson via talk wrote:
> Best Buy offered me a newer Seagate at a slightly lower price but one is claimed explicity to support Linux, and it supports some older protocols.  When I told the people at the store I wanted MBR, not GTP, they just stared at me.

That's proof store clerks are not allowed to know what they're talking
about.  What does a disk drive care about what OS is on it?  All it does
is read/write data from specified locations on the disk.


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