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From: isc20001@solar.cc.nus.sg (THAM MEI LENG)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Limits on Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD
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Date: 14 Jan 1995 02:11:22 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore
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: 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!).
Someone has been using the 9gb Micropolis drives and have gotten >8gb 
from the drives after formatting. So it seems that the limit is more than 
8gb now for Linux.