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From: "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net>
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Subject: Re: Partitioning a 23.4 Giga Byte
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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