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From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Now what?  (Hard Disk woes.)
Message-ID: <2107@antique.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 88 19:17:22 GMT
References: <oWA4lWy00V4E89s0OA@andrew.cmu.edu> <7434@oberon.USC.EDU> <3437@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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Summary: Any limit on surfaces?

In article <3437@cbmvax.UUCP> steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats) writes:
>In article <7434@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>>
>>The current hddisk.device driver supplied with the A2090 controller has a
>>built-in limit of about 54 Meg (or something close to that) PER PARTITION.
>>
>Nope!  The 54 Meg limit is imposed by the filesystem, not by the driver.
>
>	Steve

On a related note: Is it true that there is a limit of 8 surfaces (heads)
for hard drives?  If so, is this limit imposed by the 2090 controller,
or something else?  This sounds like something that can't be fixed by just
creating more partitions.

	Thank you.
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	Charles Poirier   (decvax,ihnp4,attmail)!vax135!cjp

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