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- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!de351
- From: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Is there size limit for HD on A4000 and A1200
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 19:50:43 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: de351@freenet3.carleton.ca (K. C. Lee)
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- > jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl (Jaco Schoonen) wrote:
- > >
- >>The FastFileSystem can't handle drives >4 Gb. If you want a biugger drive go
- >>for AFS.
-
- You'll still run into problems as the A1200 and A4000 both use IDE. The
- scsi.device driver might still limit the addressable blocks to 32-bit. On
- real SCSI devices, AFS might be able to send SCSIdirect commands to bypass
- the exec driver limitation.
-
- MARTYN DISSINGTON (diss-2@mail.burton-college.ac.uk) writes:
- > I heard it was 2 gig?
-
- I guess use 2 gig in case some of your programs might have been using
- signed long integers (-2 gig to +2 gig) instead of unsigned ( 0 - 4 gig).
-
- Lucky for me I don't have to find that out yet... I did have to hack the
- driver to get around the 1 gig limit on my really out dated driver code
- when I got my 1.08 g drive.
-
- > Martyn Dissington.
-
- K. C. Lee
-