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- In article <1658.6677T638T2771@iig.com.au> (Mark P Allen) writes:
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- > On 12-Apr-96 14:06:32, Dale Currie wrote:
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- > DC> You're correct about the value shown in the screen shot, it is a "c".
- > DC> However, the default value in HDToolBox has always been 0x7ffffffe, up to
- > DC> and including 3.1, AFAIK. That is just a couple of bytes shy of 2 Gigs,
- > DC> which is the limit of the filesystems addressing.
- >
- > The Warp Engine, by default, applies the following to a disk RDB:
- > MaxTransfer: 2147483647
- > Mask: 0xffffffff
- >
- > While the filesystem addressing is limited to 2GB, the actual device
- > limitation is 4GB. I am using the above values on all my
- > drives/partitions, including a 4GB partition for use with VLAB Motion
- > (I'm glad to say the problems I was experiencing with VLAB, and we were
- > discussing recently, appear to have been fixed by the warpram utility).
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- Yes, on looking at some of the HDPrep scripts on the Install disk later, I
- noticed that they also use this value. It seems strange, since the
- partition limit is 2GB for FFS that they would use a 4GB value, but as long
- as it doesn't cause a problem.... I can see why you might use that for the
- VLAB with a 4GB partition, but then doesn't it use it's own filesystem?
-
- > Someone told me that the "c", "e" and "f" symbols represented byte, word
- > or long offsets (I'm getting way out of my depth here though) according to
- > the host system (eg., 16 or 32-bit etc). (?)
-
- Yes, it would be interesting to see some test numbers on large newer drives
- to see if there is a difference at higher speed transfers.
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