Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 20:04:12 -0500 (CDT) From: "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net> To: "gary.corcoran" <gtc@aloft.att.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning a 23.4 Giga Byte Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.93.960516200326.24288E-100000@dazed.nol.net> In-Reply-To: <9605142337.AA04613@stargazer>
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On Tue, 14 May 1996, gary.corcoran wrote: > Another related question, and perhaps what the poster meant to ask: > > Will such a huge drive be fully usable (i.e. all 23G) within the "IBM- > compatible" world of SCSI controllers? Aren't PC-compatible SCSI > controllers limited to 8G of disk space (on a single disk), due to > the (stupid) limitations on maximum heads/cylinders/sectors imposed > by PC history?... :-( > > Gary > Most assuredly not, I have several 9gig drives stacked on an Adaptec 2940UW card which is running on a pentium 120 system w/ FreeBSD 2.1. brett
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