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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 hard drive capacity
Message-ID: <987@boing.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 91 15:48:02 GMT
References: <1991May20.102326.27503@NCoast.ORG> <192e8a94.ARN00a5@core.north.de> <42674@cup.portal.com> <1991May29.013321.18565@cs.cornell.edu>
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In article <42674@cup.portal.com> FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) writes:
[...]
>I've got another question (to keep you gurus on your toes :->).  SCSI
>has a block address limit of about 1.2 Gig for 512 Byte blocks.
>a SPARC 2 with a pair of 2.0 Gig drives for work and I'm not sure what
>will happen when we format them.

Some drive support different block sizes, if your disk drive software can
handle 1k block sizes then you could format the drive for 1k byte blocks
and effectively get an extra address bit. When I was more of a unix hacker
years ago, that was one of the things we did to speed up unix I/O.



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Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
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