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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4843 comp.os.linux.misc:33445 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!bubba.ucc.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!krabat!leo From: leo@krabat.marco.de (Matthias Pfaller) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Limits on Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD Message-ID: <4455@krabat.marco.de> Date: 13 Jan 95 12:43:23 GMT References: <pwdD25Htq.58A@netcom.com> <D26603.FzH@park.uvsc.edu> <DFR.95Jan12121409@trout.render.com> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Organization: marco GmbH, D-85221 Dachau Lines: 27 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Doug Rabson (dfr@render.com) wrote: > In article <D26603.FzH@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes: > > pwd@netcom.com (Philip W. Dalrymple III) wrote: > > ] [removed to stop my news server from moaning] > > > > 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!). > I friend of mine was telling me about a 9G Seagate drive he was > testing but I guess that is 9G unformatted, taking it down to less > than 8G formatted. The fact that drives this size exists must mean > that >8G drives could be built sometime soon. Do any of the different > SCSI flavours (fast, wide, wider, tall, etc...) support larger drives? Even with 24 bit block addresses (the 10 byte read allows 32 bit block addresses) you can go up to 16gb when using a block size of 1k. When using ufs it should be no problem to use disks with a sector size of 1k. If that's not enough or you are forced to use 512b blocks for some strange reason you still can use the 10 byte read command. This should allow disks as large as 2048gb... Matthias -- leo@marco.de in real life: Matthias Pfaller ..!unido!marco!leo marco GmbH, 85221 Dachau tel: +49 8131 516142