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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: max hd capacity
Summary: 2G per partition or 2G per disk?
Keywords: hard disk, maxtor
Message-ID: <1267@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 4 Oct 90 01:38:36 GMT
References: <26ffb75d.3681@uop.uop.edu> <1261@romana.Tymnet.COM> <14805@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <14805@cbmvax.commodore.com> steveb@cbmvax.commodore.com (Steve Beats) writes:
>>The Fast File System 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 hook up 56 disks each with a capacity of 2 Gigabytes each.

There was one question I had the last time this topic came up that I missed
the answer to.

  Is the limit 2 gigabytes per disk or 2 gigabytes per partition?

That is, if the total capacity of a disk drive is more than 2G, can AmigaDOS
use the full capacity (assuming that it is divided into several partitions
each less than 2G).

I ask this because before the RDB standard was defined, I was told that
AmigaDOS reads a particular block of a particular partition by converting
the request to a byte offset from the beginning of the disk.  Any blocks
past the 2G (or 4G) limit were not accessable.  How is it implemented now?
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