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From: chris@vindaloo.com (Christopher Sean Hilton)
Subject: Re: DNS, FTP & Mail - for ISP
Organization: Vindaloo communications
Message-ID: <1995Oct9.214234.17486@vindaloo.com>
References: <44mmsd$1lda@news.gate.net> <450tf7$4n0@tzlink.j51.com> <454bpu$eev@uriah.heep.sax.de> <459tpi$g6v@tzlink.j51.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 95 21:42:34 GMT
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In article <459tpi$g6v@tzlink.j51.com>, Louis Epstein <lepslog@j51.com> wrote:
>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.
>
8GB is the DOS limitation. Since DOS is the bulk of their market
that's what they advertise. There is nothing preventing the driver in
FreeBSD or Linux from addressing all of a 2048 GB drive however
getting a partition table on it may be problematic.
Chris
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