Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: max hd capacity Keywords: hard disk, maxtor Message-ID: <6696@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 3 Oct 90 11:39:23 GMT References: <26ffb75d.3681@uop.uop.edu> <1261@romana.Tymnet.COM> <14805@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Distribution: na Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 17 In article <14805@cbmvax.commodore.com> steveb@cbmvax.commodore.com (Steve Beats) writes: > 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. More than that, no? You can have much larger disks, I would assume, if you partition them. How many partitions can you have on a disk? (I would guess that it would at least be limited by the screen resolution in the disk setup program). > 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 :-) Just wait until someone needs a single file over 2G. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .