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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
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Subject: Re: Maximum disk size
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Date: 19 Jun 91 02:06:39 GMT
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In <8531@oasys.dt.navy.mil> scfisher@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Fisher) writes:

| Does anyone know what the maximum disk size that Irix will support?  We
| are considering getting some 1.6GB (unformatted) drives for our systems.
| 

That should work just fine.  We use 10 byte commands, so we don't run
into the problems that Sun and DEC had with > 1Gb formatted capacity.

Of course, that is in the abstract; I can't say whether the particular
drive you are looking at will work, but the ones we have tried have
worked fine.