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- From: jsaklad@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu (Jim Saklad)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Dave Haynie questions
- Date: 20 Jan 1996 01:09:48 GMT
- Organization: HCF - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- On 09-Jan-96 10:21:07, LEEK commented:
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- >>I bought a Quantum 4.3 gig drive and my a3000T isn't reading it right. coul
- > ^^^^
- > That might be the problem. There seems to be
- > a 32-bit limitation in the device driver and/or file system to limit HD to
- > 4 gig. If you are running OS3.X, you might be able to change the block
- > size and get the file system to address the drive. Very likely your
- > device driver would give you trouble on crossing the 4 gig limit.
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- Most manufacturers describe their drives today metric-style rather than
- computer-style.
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- That is, a 210 megabyte drive has 210,000,000 bytes (usually unformatted
- capacity), and a 4.3 gig drive will have 4,300,000,000 (again, probably
- UNformatted capacity).
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- 2^32 actually comes out to 4,282,384,384 so the _size_ is probably *not* the
- problem....
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