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From: steveb@cbmvax.commodore.com (Steve Beats)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: max hd capacity
Keywords: hard disk, maxtor
Message-ID: <14805@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 Oct 90 16:24:49 GMT
References: <26ffb75d.3681@uop.uop.edu> <1261@romana.Tymnet.COM>
Reply-To: steveb@cbmvax.commodore.com (Steve Beats)
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In article <1261@romana.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:
>In article <26ffb75d.3681@uop.uop.edu> nishan@uop.edu (Nishan Sandhar) writes:
>>	Is there a limit on the maximum space I can I have attached to the Amiga?
>With the Fast File System, it is supposed to handle disks up to 2.147 gigabytes.
It`s worth mentioning that this limit is per-partition, not a total limit.
You could conceivably hook up 56 disks each with a capacity of 2 Gigabytes
to each SCSI controller card in the system.  You`d have to use the 2.0 FS
to reduce the need for bitmap memory (1.3 FFS and OFS use mongo amounts of
RAM for the in memory copies of the bitmaps).

Let`s just say that the Amiga can cope with more hard disk space than
anyone is ever going to need.....and see which year I`m proven wrong :-)

	Steve