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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!news.wctc.net!spcuna!tzlink.j51.com!lepslog From: lepslog@j51.com (Louis Epstein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DNS, FTP & Mail - for ISP Date: 9 Oct 1995 01:27:14 GMT Organization: TZ-Link, a public-access online community in Nyack, NY. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <459tpi$g6v@tzlink.j51.com> References: <44mmsd$1lda@news.gate.net> <44ro0o$r9l@tzlink.j51.com> <450eem$335@news.hal-pc.org> <450tf7$4n0@tzlink.j51.com> <454bpu$eev@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: j51.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : Louis Epstein <lepslog@j51.com> wrote: : >OK...where did you find a controller that handles a 9GB disk?The main ones : >seem to stop at 8...which is why I ditched plans to use a 9 for news. : Why should a SCSI controller stop at 8 GB? : With 32-bit logical block numbers and the common value of 512 bytes : per block, you can address : 2^(32+9) : 2199023255552 : bytes, or : 2^(32+9)/(2^30) : 2048 : gigabytes. Be that as it may,BusLogic and Adaptec are now making cards that can only handle 8GB or smaller drives.