Subject: RE: Does anyone remember the max disk sixe for a VS3100 M76?
To: None <port-vax@NetBSD.org>
From: Carl Lowenstein <cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/07/2005 22:54:58
> From: "Antonio Carlini" <a.carlini@ntlworld.com>
> To: <port-vax@NetBSD.org>
> Subject: RE: Does anyone remember the max disk sixe for a VS3100 M76?
> Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 17:45:40 +0100
>
> Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
> > So use any disk you want to. Limit the root partition to one
> > gig, and you'll be safe.
>
> FWIW the actual limit is 1.073GB - just in case that
> extra 73MB makes a difference :-)
The actual limit is 2^30 bytes. That is, 1073741824 bytes.
Short-format SCSI command codes have an address limit of 2^21 data blocks.
carl
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