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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newshost.marcam.com!news.netins.net!usenet From: jim@aisbbs.com (Jim Louvau) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DNS, FTP & Mail - for ISP Date: 10 Oct 1995 08:12:34 GMT Organization: Alternatives Unlimited Inc. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <45d9ti$q5j@insosf1.netins.net> 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: s3122.netins.net X-Newsreader: NeoLogic News for OS/2 [version: 4.2] In message <459tpi$g6v@tzlink.j51.com> - lepslog@j51.com (Louis Epstein) writes : :> :>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. :> The 8GB limitation is in the adapter BIOS. Once you have a software device driver loaded and running the show, the BIOS is out of the picture and the limitation goes away ... it's only a problem if you want to use a > 8GB drive under say MS-DOS without a driver. -jl