[lug] big disk limitations

D. Stimits stimits at idcomm.com
Thu Oct 18 13:48:00 MDT 2001


Chip Atkinson wrote:
> 
> I know that there is a 33.8 G limitation, but I haven't read the
> Large-Disk HOWTO yet, so I can't tell you more yet.

Yet another good reason for scsi...you won't find a drive big enough to
cause problems for the most part, even on older systems (I'm not saying
you couldn't, but it would surprise me).

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> Chip
> 
> Holshouser, David wrote:
> 
> > I've got a 16GB hdd on an old machine (p200).
> > I had to flash the bios to get that seen.
> > Has anyone seen limitations (like the 2gb and 8gb limitations of yester
> > year) that would keep a 60gb or 100gb disk from working on this machine?
> >
> > --
> > David Holshouser
> > Software Engineer
> > Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
> > (303)939-5085  dholshou at ball.com
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