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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: max hd capacity
Keywords: hard disk, maxtor
Message-ID: <14856@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 3 Oct 90 23:02:50 GMT
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Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
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In article <6696@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>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).

	Well, exec devices (at least one compatible with current usage) are
limited to 4 gig, due to byte offsets instead of in blocks.

	As for partitions, HDToolBox can handle more than can be seen (use
left and right cursors, and the numeric gadgets for size.  It may not be
easy, but it can be done.  Minimum allocations is currently 2 cylinders; it
could be one but HDToolbox doesn't allow that currently.  Also it's limited
to 2 cylinders of RigidDiskBlock at this time.

	However, anyone can write a RigidDiskBlock editor.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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