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- From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 4 Gigs....and counting..
- Message-ID: <63970@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 07:57:28 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Aug7.140551.25211@walter.cray.com>
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- There are theortical limits and practical limits. The theoretical
- limit of a disk drive is 2^32 - 1 blocks. I belive this is the
- physical device size, not partition size. Of course, a device this
- size would have a bitmap of about 262144 blocks in size.... and
- would require 128 MBs of memory to allow the system to work on it...
- Of course with the 68030 & 68040 having 32 bit addressing, this would
- not be impossible... Practical, I doubt it..
-