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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!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: 10 Oct 1995 03:43:53 GMT Organization: TZ-Link, a public-access online community in Nyack, NY. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <45cq5p$k16@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> <459tpi$g6v@tzlink.j51.com> <DG6nvu.7pE@ritz.mordor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: j51.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Chris Mauritz (ritz@ritz.mordor.com) wrote: : 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 : : : : : [arithmetic snipped] : : : : : 2048 gigabytes. : : : : Be that as it may,BusLogic and Adaptec are now making cards that can only : : handle 8GB or smaller drives. : Um, both the Adaptec 2940 and the Buslogic 946C will handle 9gb drives. Just checked the web pages for both...the latter says 8 GB limit,the former doesn't say a disk capacity limit,but they said it would take a firmware upgrade when I called them(and I'm getting the 445 anyway).