so i should just go nab an 18G or 36G disk, toss it in, and see if it
works. ;)

-brian

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 07:57:45PM +0100, Antonio Carlini wrote:
> > Boot? Someone else will have to let you know about whether 
> > the 4000/90 has issues with the size / location of the boot slice.
> 
> It does not have the 1.073GB problem. I've never tried anything
> bigger than 4GB in one, because that's all I have SCSI-wise.
> The largest DEC SCSI drive likely to have been qualified would
> have been the 8GB ones. The 1.073GB problem was fixed by
> moving from 6 byte to 10 byte commands (i.e. 21 bits for LBN
> to 32 bits for the LBN). This should give a maximum disk
> size of 2TB or so. However, the last time I posted this
> calculation, someone else claimed that there was a
> different restriction in the console firmware. I guess
> a few years from now we'll be able to see where the
> limit really is.
> 
> Antonio
>  
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> 
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> Antonio Carlini             arcarlini@iee.org

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