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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
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- Subject: Re: 9GB SCSI II Controller Card for th
- Date: 18 Feb 96 11:54:26 +0000
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- References: <john.hendrikx.4ebn@grafix.xs4all.nl> <4g0sa2$5j2@news.ox.ac.uk>
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- Hi, Benjamin Hutchings , on 16-Feb-96 03:05:38 you scribbled....
- >In article <john.hendrikx.4ebn@grafix.xs4all.nl>,
- >John Hendrikx <john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl> wrote:
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- >> M> does this mean you can't use disks >2GB or just that you can't have
- >> M> partitions over 2GB ??
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- >>It depends on the device, but most of them can't handle anything over 2 GB
- >>(not talking partitions here). The problem is that filesystems have to give
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- >Why not let the device-driver do its own partitioning, and access these
- >partitions as separate units of the device?
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- >" This is a little ugly, but should work as an interim solution. "
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- Hehhe with these words the pile of much that is Windoze was born ;)
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- > There would still be a 2M limit on partitions though.
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- Amiga's had enought kludges IMHO ..time for a rewrite.
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- Mike
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