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- From: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
- Subject: Re: SCSI Driver
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 94 16:29:19 MET DST
- In-Reply-To: <18698.9404291341@elvis.earth.ox.ac.uk>; from "Stephen Usher" at Apr 29, 94 02:41:18 pm
-
- Huhu!
-
- > Hmm.. I think restricting disk block/sector numbers to 32 bit would be a
- > grave mistake. There are already 9GB disk boxes out there, 4GB is becoming
- > commonplace using multi-disk virtual drive technology. OK, they are
- > currently quite expensive, ie about #1500 stirling for 4GB, but the price is
- > falling VERY quickly.
-
- I think there's something going wrong here: An unsigned 32 bit number can
- hold values up to 4gig, but using it as a pointer to 512 byte sectors would
- result in 2048gig being adressable. Only limit would be that one single file
- couldn't be bigger than 4gig. Is that really a problem?
-
- ciao,
- TeSche
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