Return to BSD News archive
Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4768 comp.os.linux.misc:33227
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!udel!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!nntp.et.byu.edu!news.byu.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!park.uvsc.edu!news
From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Subject: Re: Limits on Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 01:10:36 GMT
Message-ID: <D27v9q.14F@park.uvsc.edu>
X-Nntp-Posting-Host: hecate.artisoft.com
References: <pwdD25Htq.58A@netcom.com> <D26603.FzH@park.uvsc.edu> <RICHK.95Jan10103953@netcom17.netcom.com>
Sender: news@park.uvsc.edu (System Account)
Lines: 23
richk@netcom17.netcom.com (Richard Krehbiel) wrote:
] > The MAX disk size on SCSI is fixed; if you don't like it, you'll
] > have to discover a standard other than SCSI -- actually, I think
] > the 8G limit of SCSI isn't surpassed by anything on a PC, but I
] > could be wrong (correct me, correct me!).
]
] You know, I was under the impression that the SCSI protocol has a 32
] bit value for disk sector numbers. With 4G 512-byte sectors, that
] comes to 2 terabytes. And SCSI sector size may be other than 512
] bytes, too.
]
] And by the way, Seagate already sells a 9G SCSI disk drive...
That would b 9G unformatted, 8G formatted, usable.
Ask Seagate why. 8^).
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.