Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 14:01:25 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> To: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, john@zyqad.co.uk, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950812140011.9552e-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <2238.808250034@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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On Sat, 12 Aug 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.950812133650.9552d-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu>, -V > ince- writes: > > I forgot who mentioned on the list that 4 GB was the limit. What > >brand is the 9GB SCSI on news.cdrom.com? > > Sorry? They're lying/mistaken. It used to be a 2GB limit (not 4 - they > were unsigned ints), but that restriction vanished quite a while ago > (somewhere between 2.0 and 2.0.5). AFAIR, it's now 1TB. Oh okay, then that wouldn't be a problem to use a 9GB drive. > And the drive is a Micropolis 1991. Hmmm, are they pretty good and quiet of a drive or would I be better off with a Seageate or Quantum (If they make one)? Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free! Chabot Observatory & Science Center
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