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From: jeremy@perf2.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Maximum disk size
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Date: 19 Jun 91 22:26:42 GMT
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In article <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.
> 
> -steve

Currently, it is 2.147GB, or 2 ^ 31 - 1 bytes, formatted.  That means about
2.4 to 3.1 GB formatted.