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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: >1GB disks OK for RISC/os 4.01?
Message-ID: <4478@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 91 16:17:08 GMT
Organization: Cafe Limbo
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A while ago in the news there was some excitement about the problem
some systems have in the SCSI drivers addressing blocks at the end
of disks with capacity greater than a gigabyte.

I have a Fuji 2266 (1.07 GB formatted), and on a file system that
extends near the end of the disk (partition 5, blocks 1359360 to
2017439) I am seeing some intermittent file corruption.  I'm wondering
if this might be attributable to SCSI driver problems.

On the other hand, I'm using partition 1 (blocks 2066400-2106719)
for swap, and it seems to me that I should get other weird errors
too if the driver isn't working properly (e.g., programs swapping
corrupted program text and dying mysteriously).  I am not seeing
this.

Do the RISC/os drivers work properly for big disks?