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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-1542B and large SCSI questions
- Message-ID: <92349.022207DLVGC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- From: Dimitri Vulis <DLVGC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Date: Monday, 14 Dec 1992 02:22:07 EST
- References: <1992Dec12.174722.407@weyrich.UUCP>
- Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
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- In article <1992Dec12.174722.407@weyrich.UUCP>, orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net
- (Orville R. Weyrich) says:
- >My question is this: I have heard that SCSI disks larger than 1 Gb may
- >not work properly without BIOS upgrades or special drivers. Is this true for
- >OS/2?
- >
- >Are there any other considerations that I need to keep in mind or any
- >tricks/gotchas?
- At a site, I have a SCSI disk over 1GB running off an IBM SCSI controller.
- It was running FAT. I discovered that the allocation chunks were 16KB!
- Today, actually, I reformatted it to HPFS (I used Sytos Plus to backup,
- recommended) and there were (gasp) 40MB more free storage!!
- Moral: use HPFS, especially for a large disk with a few thou files, many
- of them small.
-
- Dimitri
-