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- From: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper)
- Subject: Re: 9GB SCSI II Controller Card for the A3000?
- Originator: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com
- Sender: news@unx.sas.com (Noter of Newsworthy Events)
- Message-ID: <DMIJon.231@unx.sas.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 14:45:59 GMT
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- References: <1f7_9602041301@ima.infomail.com>
- Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
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- In article <1f7_9602041301@ima.infomail.com>, Dale.Frameli@311.ima.infomail.com (Dale Frameli) writes:
- >Anyone know if there's a SCSI II controller board that's both A3000 compatable
- >AND recognizes, partitions and formats a 9GB hard drive? I'd really like to
- >get an 060 accelerator with a SCSI II option that would support such a drive...
- > Maybe CyberStorm or DKB will build one.
-
- The A3000 internal SCSI interface will handle 9GB (and larger) drives
- with no problems at all.
-
- The problem is that neither dos.library nor the filesystem can easily
- deal with anything over 2GB. It doesn't matter *what* SCSI interface
- you use, until the OS is updated, you're stuck.
-
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- Jim Cooper
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