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- From: sck@watson.ibm.com (SC Kennedy)
- Subject: Re: 4 Gigs....and counting..
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.192030.10146@watson.ibm.com>
- Sender: sck@watson.ibm.com (SC Kennedy)
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:20:30 GMT
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- In article <34263@cbmvax.commodore.com>, mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz) writes:
- |> rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks) writes:
- |> >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.
- |>
- |> Well, we have not yet been able to test the system if it works with larger
- |> than 2gig. I do know that it will be a problem to have a file over 2gig due
- |> to the fact that Seek() (and fseek()) take a signed value for the byte offset.
-
- Once I get a spare drive or two, I'll let you know.
-
- |> However, I claim that the number of people that will put a drive that is
- |> over 2gig in size on their $500 Amiga coputer system will be rather low
- |> for a while yet. By the time this really becomes a problem, the fix will
- |> have been done long ago.
-
- Speak for yourself, I use my 3000 to test for bad drives on my Unix cluster,
- and given that we sometimes get a large amount of drives at once, it is not
- uncommon for my Amiga to have over 8 GB attached to it at once.
-
- I'm probably going to do the world's largest Amiga Disk drive test again, and
- this time I'm going to shoot for 25 GB on 1 3000-16. By using ST43400N drives
- I should be able to put 20.4 GB off of the 3000 built-in controller, and borrow a
- 2091 to connect thother ST41600N to bring me up to 25-27 GB. ( I've just got
- a few defectives this time.)
-
- Any thing you want me to do when I get the drives up? (No cheap comments
- please) Send E-mail or call (914) 945-1992
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