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- From: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 4 Gigs....and counting..
- Keywords: SCSI Amigados
- Message-ID: <32648@auc.UUCP>
- Date: 11 Aug 92 18:25:08 GMT
- References: <1992Aug7.140551.25211@walter.cray.com> <1992Aug9.034453.4560@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Reply-To: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
- Organization: Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, Ga.
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- In article <1992Aug9.034453.4560@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> jap@crs.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) writes:
- >Due to the standard AmigaDOS device interface any particular
- >(logical) device is limited to 4gig. However, you may have many 4gig devices
- >attached. Theoretically you could have lets see...
- >In a A3000 which has 4 slots
- > 5 SCSI controllers, each can get at 7 unit of 8 drives each -
- > giving you 5*7*8 or 280 drives. Say each drive was 4GIG.
- > That leaves you with 1120 GIG of disk space.
- > (You better have one *BIG* powersupply)
-
- First of all, is the 4 gig limit on the drives in this case, or the partitions?
- Aren't the partitions the logical devices? If so, the amount of disk space
- is only limited by the number of devices that you can have (times the maximum
- partition size), and I think that is theoretically unlimited in the Amiga OS
- (if it is limited, I bet the limit occurs at the DOS level.).
-
- Actually, I think the number of logical devices is limited by the naming
- convention (three characters for the actual device name).
-
- Second, isn't the partition size limit under AmigaDOS 2gig? I think I remember
- that it had a 2gig limit, and that signed arithmetic was used.
-
- >How many computers that you know of have 1120 gig of online harddisk space?
-
- I wish mine did!
-
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