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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DNS, FTP & Mail - for ISP
Date: 6 Oct 1995 23:49:34 +0100
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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.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)