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- From: crussell@samson.hac.com (Chris Russell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Macintosh Finder's 2Gb volume limit
- Message-ID: <23899@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 05:14:40 GMT
- Article-I.D.: hacgate.23899
- References: <1992Nov2.171512.2704@novell.com>
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- In article <6648@otc.otca.oz> sfinlay@otc.research.otca.oz.au (Stephen Finlay) writes:
- > The current Macintosh Finder has a volume size limit of 2Gb.
- > Is this the same with System 7.1?
-
- In article 2704@novell.com, dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman) writes:
- > Yes, the 7.1x OS has this problem. FINDER treats one of the volume variables
- > (GetVolParam I think) as a SIGNED LONG INT, so there are only enough values
- > to support up to 2 Gig volumes.
-
- Yes, I think almost everyone's run across THAT "problem" already. Actually, I
- just ran across a "problem" with the 68030 that prevents me from accessing more
- than 4GB RAM. :)
-
- Chris Russell.
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