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- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 96 20:01:43 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: 9GB SCSI II Controller Card for th
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- From: john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx)
- Message-ID: <john.hendrikx.4gcm@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 16 Feb 96 Benjamin Hutchings wrote to All:
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- >> The only way to solve this is to create devices which have new commands
- >> to do reading and writing which take block-offsets instead of byte-offsets
- >> (this would also mean the filesystem needs to be slightly altered) or
- >> maybe even 64-bit byte-offsets. Another solution would be to let the
- >> filesystem use
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- BH> Why not let the device-driver do its own partitioning, and access these
- BH> partitions as separate units of the device? This is a little ugly, but
- BH> should work as an interim solution. There would still be a 2M limit on
- BH> partitions though.
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- Sure, that would be possible, but it would still require a new scsi.device, or
- gvpscsi.device or whatever depending on what controller your using.
-
- Grtz John
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