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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: 3.7 Gigabytes disk drives
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 02:27:53 GMT
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- In <31504@adm.brl.mil> blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB) writes:
- | I thought I remembered someone from SGI saying, one could use drives
- | larger than 2Gb, but there was a 2Gb size limit on a single partition.
- | Is this no longer true?
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- 8 Gbytes/partition, 2 Gbytes (-1) per file, as of IRIX 3.3 and later.
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- fx prior to 4.0.5 would not be able to exercise a disk > 2 Gb formatted,
- but other than that should work.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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