Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!ee!cantrell
From: cantrell@ee.tamu.edu (Pierce Cantrell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Any problems with disks > 1GB ?
Message-ID: <13215@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Date: 8 Mar 91 22:17:32 GMT
Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU
Reply-To: cantrell@ee.tamu.edu (Pierce Cantrell)
Organization: Texas A&M University
Lines: 17


In several news groups and in Digital News (Mar 4, 1991)
there is discussion of problems using disks with
formatted sizes greater that 1GB. The problem has
to do with using SCSI Group 0, which has an
address field limited to 1 GB, versus Extended SCSI
that can handle disks greater than one GB.

Are there any Mips machines that will have this
problem? I assume that our RC3230 that was
shipped from the factory with 1.2 GB drives
is fine?
--
Pierce Cantrell                                cantrell@ee.tamu.edu
Department of Electrical Engineering        
Texas A&M University                           tel: (409) 845-7441
College Station, Texas 77843-3128              fax: (409) 845-6259